Security Requirements Analysis Report

Comprehensive Security Analysis with Interactive Dashboard

Generated: 2025-11-19 12:48:51 Report Version: 2.0 - Comprehensive Security Analysis

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1. Executive Summary

This section provides a high-level overview of the security requirements analysis, presenting key findings, validation results, and an interactive dashboard for stakeholders and decision-makers. The executive summary enables rapid comprehension of the security posture, critical risks, control coverage, and compliance status without requiring detailed technical knowledge.

1.1. Purpose and Scope

Purpose

This document presents a comprehensive security requirements analysis for the proposed application, systematically mapping high-level business requirements to specific, actionable security controls aligned with multiple industry standards: OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS), NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, and ISO 27001:2022. The analysis provides a complete security requirements specification that guides secure system design, implementation, and verification.

Scope

This analysis encompasses all functional requirements provided, delivering comprehensive coverage across multiple security domains:

• Requirements Analysis: Systematic decomposition and security-relevant extraction from business requirements
• Stakeholder Analysis: Identification of stakeholders, trust boundaries, and security responsibilities
• Threat Modeling: Systematic identification and assessment of security threats using STRIDE methodology
• Security Control Mapping: Mapping requirements to multi-standard security controls (OWASP ASVS, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001) with detailed implementation guidance
• Compliance Requirements: Identification of regulatory and legal compliance obligations
• Architectural Security: Security architecture recommendations and design patterns
• Implementation Planning: Prioritized, phased implementation roadmap
• Verification Strategies: Testing and validation approaches for security controls

The analysis provides both strategic guidance for security planning and tactical details for implementation teams.

1.2. Key Findings

This section summarizes the most critical results from the security requirements analysis, providing executives and stakeholders with immediate insight into the security posture and validation status.

Analysis Metrics

• Validation Score: 0.79/1.0
• Validation Status: ❌ Needs Review
• Analysis Iterations: 1
• Requirements Analyzed: 22

Application Summary

An omnichannel, web-based collaborative blogging system that enables humans and automated agents (Prolog-driven) to co-author, manage, schedule, and publish content across Web, Email, and Social channels with role-based access, real-time collaboration, agent governance, channel-specific formatting, analytics, and integrations to external publishing and communication platforms.

The validation score reflects the quality and completeness of the security requirements across five dimensions: completeness, consistency, correctness, implementability, and alignment with business objectives. A score of 0.8 or higher indicates that the requirements are ready for implementation, while scores below this threshold may require refinement before proceeding.

1.3. Security Overview Dashboard

This interactive dashboard provides executive-level visualization of key security metrics and trends, enabling rapid assessment of the security posture through intuitive charts and data visualizations. The dashboard presents critical information across multiple dimensions: risk distribution, security control coverage, compliance status, implementation progress, and data quality metrics. For optimal viewing experience, render this document with Quarto to enable interactive chart functionality, allowing stakeholders to explore data dynamically and drill down into specific areas of interest.

Risk

Figure 1: Risk heat map showing threat distribution by likelihood and impact (1-5 scale).

Top 5 Highest Risks:

THR-001 (Critical) - User Management (Auth/Core API) - Category: Spoofing - Likelihood: 4 | Impact: 4 - Description: Credential theft or reuse: attackers obtain user credentials (phished, leaked, or brute-forced) and authenticate as legitimate users to access the system. Agent accounts (machine identities) may be ta

THR-004 (Critical) - Application Services (Auth/Core API) - Category: Elevation of Privilege - Likelihood: 4 | Impact: 4 - Description: Broken RBAC/ACLs allow a low-privileged user (Contributor) to perform admin/editor actions (delete other users’ posts, change channel connectors, rotate keys) due to missing or coarse-grained authoriz

THR-005 (High) - Application Services (Post CRUD, Workflow Engine) - Category: Tampering - Likelihood: 4 | Impact: 3 - Description: Unauthorized modification or deletion of post content or metadata via insufficient input validation or insecure APIs (malicious client or internal abuse altering published content or scheduled times).

THR-013 (High) - Frontend Layer / Application Services - Category: Tampering - Likelihood: 4 | Impact: 3 - Description: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS): malformed user content (posts, comments, attachments metadata) rendered without proper escaping leading to session theft, UI manipulation, or drive-by actions.

THR-025 (High) - External Integrations (Third-party services) - Category: Denial of Service - Likelihood: 4 | Impact: 3 - Description: Third-party rate limits or outages (social APIs, email providers, file scanning vendors) prevent publishing or scanning causing backlog, delayed publishing, or missed moderation.

Controls

Figure 2: Security control distribution by standard (OWASP, NIST, ISO 27001).

Figure 3: OWASP ASVS control distribution by verification category (V1-V14).

Figure 4: Security control priority distribution (Critical/High/Medium/Low).

Coverage Metrics:

• Total Security Controls Mapped: 78
  • OWASP ASVS: 26 controls
  • NIST SP 800-53: 29 controls
  • ISO 27001: 23 controls
• Requirements with Security Control Mapping: 82.6% (19/23)
• Average Controls per Requirement: 3.4
• Critical Controls: 22 (28.2% of total)
• Requirements with Verification: 100.0% (23/23)
• Recommended ASVS Level: L2 (Standard)

Compliance

Figure 5: Compliance status across all applicable frameworks (Red-Amber-Green rating). Shows regulatory compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.) and security standards (OWASP ASVS, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001).

Compliance Summary:

• ⚠️ OWASP ASVS: In Progress (Next Audit: N/A)
• ⚠️ NIST SP 800-53: In Progress (Next Audit: N/A)
• ⚠️ ISO 27001: In Progress (Next Audit: N/A)

Delivery

Figure 6: Projected implementation timeline by phase and week (based on priority-based planning).

Implementation Timeline (Projected):

• Phase 1 (Critical/High): 100% projected completion (Weeks 1-8)
• Phase 2 (Medium): 100% projected completion (Weeks 9-16)
• Phase 3 (Low/Ongoing): Continuous improvement and monitoring

Note: Timeline is based on priority-based planning and assumes steady implementation progress.

Data Quality

Validation Metrics:

Overall Validation Score: ⚠️ 0.79/1.0

Dimension Scores:

• ⚠️ Completeness: 0.75
• ✅ Consistency: 0.90
• ✅ Correctness: 0.85
• ❌ Implementability: 0.65
• ✅ Alignment: 0.80

Figure 7: Data quality and coverage metrics.

Traceability Matrix:

• Total Requirements: 23
• Linked to Threats: 23 (100.0%)
• Mapped to Security Controls: 19 (82.6%)
• With Verification: 23 (100.0%)

Data Quality: ⚠️ Good

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2. Requirements Understanding

This section presents a comprehensive analysis of the functional requirements, extracting security-relevant information and establishing the foundation for the security requirements specification. Understanding the functional requirements is essential for identifying security implications, data sensitivity, trust boundaries, and security-critical components. This analysis transforms business requirements into security-aware specifications that inform threat modeling, control selection, and compliance assessment.

2.1. High-Level Requirements Analysis

The following high-level functional requirements have been identified and analyzed for security implications:

1. User registration and login with role-based access control and multi-factor authentication
2. User profile management and role/agent assignment (Admin, Editor, Contributor, Agent)
3. Channel workspace creation and multi-tenant workspace management
4. Create, edit, delete, and version blog posts with status lifecycle (Draft, In Review, Published)
5. Assign posts to users or agents and maintain assignment history/ownership
6. Schedule posts for multi-channel publication with per-channel scheduling and formatting rules
7. Tagging, categorization, and searchable metadata for posts
8. Attach files to posts with virus scanning and file-type policies
9. Threaded comments, @mentions, and permissioned comment moderation
10. Real-time collaborative editing and status updates (presence, optimistic locking or operational transform/CRDT)
11. Activity feed and audit log of system actions (create, edit, assign, publish, agent actions)
12. Prolog-driven agent integration for continuous publishing, moderation, and workflow automation
13. Automated topic suggestion and content enrichment with provenance, confidence, and model-version metadata
14. Rule-based workflow coordination with approval gates and human-in-the-loop controls
15. Agent sandboxing, resource limits, rate-limits, and governance controls (quotas, circuit breakers)
16. Connectors for managing multiple publishing channels (Web, Email, Social platforms, 3rd-party services)
17. Unified channel performance dashboard and analytics with role-based visibility
18. Email and in-app notifications (mentions, assignments, publishing events) and configurable digests
19. Export capabilities for blog lists, agent actions, and analytics with DLP and approval workflows
20. Comprehensive logging, monitoring, and alerting (SIEM integration, runbooks for agent incidents)
21. Data subject request (DSR) APIs and data lifecycle management (retention, deletion, backup/restore)
22. Supply-chain and CI/CD controls for dependencies, model provenance, and signed artifacts

2.2. Detailed Requirements Breakdown

Req ID	Requirement	Business Category	Security Sensitivity	Data Classification
REQ-001	User registration and login with role-based access…	Authentication & Identity Management	High	Confidential
REQ-002	User profile management and role/agent assignment …	User Management	High	Confidential
REQ-003	Channel workspace creation and multi-tenant worksp…	Tenancy & Workspace Management	High	Restricted
REQ-004	Create, edit, delete, and version blog posts with …	Content Management	Medium	Internal
REQ-005	Assign posts to users or agents and maintain assig…	Workflow & Assignment	Medium	Internal
REQ-006	Schedule posts for multi-channel publication with …	Publishing & Scheduling	Medium	Internal
REQ-007	Tagging, categorization, and searchable metadata f…	Content Discovery	Low	Public/Internal (depending on tags)
REQ-008	Attach files to posts with virus scanning and file…	File Management	High	Confidential
REQ-009	Threaded comments, @mentions, and permissioned com…	Collaboration	Medium	Internal/Confidential (depending on content)
REQ-010	Real-time collaborative editing and status updates…	Real-time Collaboration	Medium	Internal
REQ-011	Activity feed and audit log of system actions (cre…	Logging & Auditing	High	Internal/Restricted
REQ-012	Prolog-driven agent integration for continuous pub…	Agent Integration & Automation	High	Internal/Restricted
REQ-013	Automated topic suggestion and content enrichment …	AI/ML Governance	High	Internal
REQ-014	Rule-based workflow coordination with approval gat…	Workflow Orchestration	High	Internal
REQ-015	Agent sandboxing, resource limits, rate-limits, an…	Runtime Security	High	Internal/Restricted
REQ-016	Connectors for managing multiple publishing channe…	Integrations	High	Confidential
REQ-017	Unified channel performance dashboard and analytic…	Analytics & Reporting	Medium	Internal
REQ-018	Email and in-app notifications (mentions, assignme…	Notifications	Medium	Internal/Confidential (recipient addresses)
REQ-019	Export capabilities for blog lists, agent actions,…	Data Export & DLP	High	Confidential/Restricted
REQ-020	Comprehensive logging, monitoring, and alerting (S…	Monitoring & Incident Response	High	Internal/Restricted
REQ-021	Data subject request (DSR) APIs and data lifecycle…	Privacy & Data Protection	High	Confidential/Restricted
REQ-022	Supply-chain and CI/CD controls for dependencies, …	Supply Chain & Development Security	High	Internal
REQ-023	Tenant isolation architecture, authorization enfor…	Architecture & Multi-Tenancy	High	Restricted

2.3. Security Context and Regulatory Obligations

Applicable regulations and compliance obligations likely include: GDPR (EU personal data processing, DSRs, data minimization, data transfers), CCPA/CPRA (California consumer privacy obligations), SOC 2 / ISO 27001 (controls for security, availability, confidentiality), industry-specific privacy requirements where applicable (e.g., HIPAA if health data appears in content), and platform-specific requirements for connected channels (e.g., Twitter/X, Facebook/Meta, Google SMTP/Email API terms). Relevant technical standards and guidance: OWASP Top 10 and ASVS (web security), NIST SP 800-53 / NIST CSF (security controls), CSA guidance for cloud-hosted systems, and ML/AI governance best practices (model provenance, explainability, adversarial testing). If payment processing is later added, PCI-DSS will apply. Export controls and data residency laws apply for cross-border storage and publishing; contracts with third-party connectors must include security SLAs and breach notification clauses.

2.4. Assumptions

• System will be cloud-hosted (IaaS/PaaS) using major cloud provider(s)
• Users have internet access and modern browsers; real-time features may use WebSockets or WebRTC
• Third-party integrations (email providers, social APIs) will expose OAuth2 or API-key based credentials
• Agents are implemented as services that can be versioned and registered in a model registry
• Tenancy is primarily workspace-based but may allow enterprise-level organizations with multiple workspaces
• No initial direct payment processing is required (PCI scope excluded unless added later)
• Operational teams will provide SIEM, key management service (KMS), and backup/restore capabilities
• Developers will integrate SCA, SAST, and DAST into CI/CD pipelines

2.5. Constraints

• Must support per-channel formatting rules (web HTML/CSP, email-safe plain-text/HTML transforms, social snippet constraints)
• Latency constraints for real-time collaboration (under 200ms where feasible) and SLAs for scheduled publishes (RTO/RPO defined by ops)
• Regulatory constraints for data residency requiring region-aware storage and ability to restrict cross-border transfers
• Storage constraints: audit logs must be retained in append-only storage for at least 365 days for audit logs; backup cadence must meet RTO 4 hours and RPO 1 hour for core services (configurable)
• Security constraints: enforce TLS 1.2+/1.3, KMS-backed encryption (AES-GCM or ChaCha20-Poly1305), key rotation policy (annual or per policy), and mandatory MFA for privileged roles
• Operational constraint to integrate SCA and vulnerability gating in CI/CD with blocking policy for critical/known-exploited vulnerabilities
• Agent execution must run in sandboxed containers or VMs with CPU/memory/time limits and must be rate-limited per workspace to prevent abuse
• Auditability constraint: all rule edits and agent policy changes must be recorded with immutable, tamper-evident logs and require approval workflow for privileged changes
• Export constraint: exports containing PII must be masked or require explicit approval and be encrypted in transit and at rest
• Testing constraint: acceptance test cases must include CSRF/anti-forgery verification, automated scanning for HTTP security headers, tenant-isolation penetration tests, and agent timeout/kill tests

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3. Stakeholder Analysis

This section identifies and analyzes all stakeholders involved in or affected by the system, including users, administrators, external partners, and regulatory bodies. Stakeholder analysis establishes trust boundaries, defines security responsibilities, and identifies potential security concerns from different stakeholder perspectives. Understanding stakeholder relationships and trust boundaries is critical for designing appropriate access controls, authentication mechanisms, and data protection measures.

3.1. Identified Stakeholders and User Personas

Role	Privilege Level	Trust Level	Key Security Concerns
Admin	Admin	Trusted	Potential for privilege escalation, unauthorized data access, and system misconfigurations.
Editor	User	Trusted	Data loss through accidental deletion, unauthorized changes to content.
Contributor	User	Partially Trusted	Content manipulation, unauthorized access to sensitive data, and social engineering attacks.
Agent	Service Account	Untrusted	Misuse of automated actions, erroneous content generation, and lack of oversight on actions performed.
User	User	Partially Trusted	Identity theft, compromised credentials, and unauthorized access to personal information.
External API Integrator	Service Account	Partially Trusted	Insecure API interactions, potential data leaks, and insufficient authentication mechanisms.
Analytics System	Service Account	Untrusted	Exposure of sensitive data through analytics queries, unauthorized access to user behavior data.
Notification Service	Service Account	Untrusted	Spam and phishing risks, unauthorized notifications triggering user actions.

3.2. Trust Model

Trust boundaries are established at multiple levels including the user interface, backend services, and data storage. The primary security mechanisms enforcing these boundaries include multi-factor authentication for users, role-based access control (RBAC) to ensure that users can only access data and functionalities pertinent to their roles, and network segmentation to limit the exposure of sensitive systems. Admins have full access to manage users and system settings, Editors can create and manage content, while Contributors have limited access to specific content areas. Agents operate under predefined parameters, minimizing their access to sensitive data. External API Integrators and Analytics Systems interact through dedicated service accounts with limited privileges, ensuring the principle of least privilege is upheld. Each stakeholder is granted the minimum access necessary to perform their responsibilities, significantly reducing the risk of data exposure and privilege escalation. This layered approach to trust modeling effectively safeguards the system while enabling collaborative functionalities.

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4. System Architecture Analysis

4.1. Architectural Overview

A cloud-hosted omnichannel collaborative blogging platform composed of a delivery edge (CDN/API gateway), single-page frontend and mobile UIs, a set of backend application services (Core API, Auth/RBAC, Workflow Engine, Agent Orchestrator, Notification, Analytics, Real-time service), and a data layer (tenanted primary DB, object storage, search index, audit log store, model registry). Users and agents interact via the frontend or APIs; the API Gateway enforces security/WAF, forwards requests to application services, which persist content and metadata to the DB and object store, index to search, write immutable audit events, and call external channel connectors (email/social) for publishing. Agent services run sandboxed workloads, consult the model registry, and emit provable audit and provenance metadata; monitoring, KMS, SIEM, and DLP services provide operational controls and governance.

4.2. Architecture Diagram

4.3. Component Breakdown

Component	Responsibility	Security Criticality	External Dependencies
Edge & Delivery	Handle incoming traffic, static asset de…	High	CDN provider, Cloud Load Balancer
Frontend Layer	Client-side SPA and mobile UI providing …	High	Browser runtime, CDN
Application Services	Core backend services including API, Aut…	Critical	Identity provider (OAuth/MFA), SIEM
Real-time Collaboration	Real-time sync for collaborative editing…	High	WebSocket or managed real-time service
Agent Runtime & Orchestrator	Run Prolog-driven agents in sandboxed co…	Critical	Model registry, Container runtime
Data Storage	Persistent storage for tenant-scoped con…	Critical	Cloud DB service, Object storage provider
External Integrations & Security Ops	Connectors to email and social channels,…	High	Email/SMS providers, Social platform APIs (OAuth2)

4.4. Data Flow Analysis

Users and agents interact via the frontend (SPA/mobile) served by CDN; requests pass through the API Gateway/WAF to the Core API which authenticates via Auth service and enforces RBAC. Content edits and metadata are persisted in the tenanted primary DB; attachments are uploaded to object storage and scanned by the virus/DLP service prior to acceptance. Real-time edits flow through the Real-time service and are persisted via the Core API. Agent orchestrator fetches models from the Model Registry, performs sandboxed transformations/enrichments, emits provenance metadata and audit events, and may schedule or trigger publishes via channel connectors (email/social). Audit events stream to the append-only audit store and SIEM for monitoring. Analytics consumes DB, search, and audit data to populate dashboards. Exports are DLP-checked, encrypted, and audited before delivery.

4.5. Attack Surface Analysis

Primary attack surfaces include: (1) Public HTTP/S endpoints exposed via API Gateway and frontend — high risk for OWASP API threats; protections: WAF, rate limiting, CSRF tokens, CSP, input validation. (2) Authentication flows and session management — high risk for account takeover; mitigations: MFA for privileged roles, adaptive auth, brute-force protections. (3) External connectors (Social/Email) and stored credentials — high risk for token theft and misuse; mitigations: KMS, short-lived tokens, connector allowlists. (4) Agent runtime/sandbox — high risk for lateral movement, data exfiltration or runaway compute; mitigations: strict sandboxing, egress controls, quotas, circuit breakers, and human-in-the-loop gating for high-risk publishes. (5) File uploads/attachments — medium-high risk for malware and sensitive data leakage; mitigations: virus scanning, DLP, type/size policies. (6) Real-time channels (WebSockets) — medium risk for DoS and unauthenticated message injection; mitigations: auth tokens, connection quotas, and load-shedding. (7) Export and reporting features — medium risk for data exfiltration; mitigations: DLP enforcement, approval workflows, masking, and audit trails. Each surface should have measurable acceptance tests (CSRF blocking, header checks, tenant isolation tests, agent timeout kills) and continuous scanning (SCA/SAST/DAST) integrated into CI/CD.

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5. Threat Modeling

This section presents a comprehensive threat analysis of the system architecture and functional requirements. Threat modeling systematically identifies potential security vulnerabilities and attack vectors, enabling proactive risk mitigation through the application of appropriate security controls.

5.1. Threat Modeling Methodology

This analysis employs the STRIDE threat modeling methodology, a systematic framework developed by Microsoft for identifying security threats across six categories:

• Spoofing Identity: Threats involving impersonation of users or systems
• Tampering with Data: Threats involving unauthorized modification of data or system components
• Repudiation: Threats where users deny performing actions (lack of non-repudiation)
• Information Disclosure: Threats involving unauthorized access to sensitive information
• Denial of Service: Threats causing disruption or unavailability of system services
• Elevation of Privilege: Threats allowing unauthorized access to privileged functions

For each identified threat, the analysis evaluates likelihood (attack complexity and exposure) and impact (potential damage to confidentiality, integrity, or availability) to determine overall risk level. The methodology ensures comprehensive coverage of security concerns across all system components and interfaces.

5.2. Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment

5.2.1. Threat Overview

The following table provides a quick reference of all identified threats. Detailed analysis including descriptions, mitigation strategies, and residual risk assessment (where available) is provided in the section below.

Threat ID	Component	Category	Risk Level	Likelihood	Impact
THR-001	User Management (Auth/Core API)	Spoofing	Critical	High	High
THR-004	Application Services (Auth/Core API)	Elevation of Privilege	Critical	High	High
THR-002	Frontend Layer	Tampering	High	Medium	High
THR-003	Edge Layer (CDN & API Gateway)	Spoofing	High	Medium	High
THR-005	Application Services (Post CRUD, Workflow Engine)	Tampering	High	High	Medium
THR-006	Data Storage (Relational DB / Object Store)	Information Disclosure	High	Medium	High
THR-007	Frontend Layer / WebSockets	Information Disclosure	High	Medium	High
THR-008	Application Services (Prolog Agent Engine)	Tampering	High	Medium	High
THR-009	Application Services (Prolog Agent Engine)	Information Disclosure	High	Medium	High
THR-010	External Integrations (Social APIs / Email)	Spoofing	High	Medium	High
THR-012	Data Storage (Audit Log / Append-only)	Repudiation	High	Medium	High
THR-013	Frontend Layer / Application Services	Tampering	High	High	Medium
THR-015	Application Services / Message Queue Workers	Denial of Service	High	Medium	High
THR-016	Edge Layer / API Gateway	Denial of Service	High	Medium	High
THR-017	Data Storage (DB / Search / Analytics)	Tampering	High	Medium	High
THR-018	Attachments / Object Store / File Scanning	Information Disclosure	High	Medium	High
THR-021	Application Services / Channel Connectors	Tampering	High	Low	High
THR-022	Infrastructure & Security Services (KMS/Secrets Manager)	Spoofing	High	Medium	High
THR-025	External Integrations (Third-party services)	Denial of Service	High	High	Medium
THR-026	Application Services / Workers	Elevation of Privilege	High	Medium	High
THR-027	Data Storage (Analytics/Search)	Information Disclosure	High	Medium	High
THR-030	Infrastructure & Security Services (Backups / DR)	Tampering	High	Low	High
THR-011	External Integrations (Inbound Webhooks)	Tampering	Medium	Medium	Medium
THR-014	Frontend/API (CSRF)	Tampering	Medium	Medium	Medium
THR-019	Notifications (Email / In-app)	Information Disclosure	Medium	Medium	Medium
THR-020	Reporting / Analytics	Information Disclosure	Medium	Low	Medium
THR-023	Application Services / Workflow Engine	Repudiation	Medium	Medium	Medium
THR-024	Frontend / API (Search, Mentions)	Information Disclosure	Medium	High	Low
THR-028	Application Services (Scheduling & Multichannel Publication)	Tampering	Medium	Low	Medium
THR-029	Frontend / Application (Real-time Collaboration)	Denial of Service	Medium	Medium	Medium

Total Threats Identified: 30

5.2.2. Detailed Threat Analysis

This section provides comprehensive analysis of each identified threat, including descriptions, mitigation strategies, and residual risk assessment (where controls have been evaluated). Threats are organized by risk level for prioritized review.

Critical Risk Threats

THR-001 - User Management (Auth/Core API)

• Category: Spoofing
• Likelihood: High | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: Critical
• Description: Credential theft or reuse: attackers obtain user credentials (phished, leaked, or brute-forced) and authenticate as legitimate users to access the system. Agent accounts (machine identities) may be targeted to publish or moderate content.
• Mitigation Strategy: Enforce strong password policies, multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all human users and sensitive agent operations, adaptive/auth risk-based authentication, password hashing (bcrypt/argon2), monitoring for credential stuffing, implement rate limiting and account lockouts, protect service account keys with KMS and rotate regularly, log and alert anomalous logins.
• Controls Applied: V2.1.1, V3.2.3
• Control Effectiveness: High
• Residual Risk Level: High
• Status: ⚠️ Requires Review

THR-004 - Application Services (Auth/Core API)

• Category: Elevation of Privilege
• Likelihood: High | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: Critical
• Description: Broken RBAC/ACLs allow a low-privileged user (Contributor) to perform admin/editor actions (delete other users’ posts, change channel connectors, rotate keys) due to missing or coarse-grained authorization checks in microservices.
• Mitigation Strategy: Implement centralized, fine-grained authorization (attribute-based access control), enforce authorization checks in every service, use policy-as-code (OPA), automated tests for access rules, regular access reviews and least privilege, audit logs for privilege changes.
• Controls Applied: RBAC/OPA
• Control Effectiveness: Medium
• Residual Risk Level: High
• Status: ⚠️ Requires Review

High Risk Threats

THR-002 - Frontend Layer

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: DOM tampering or supply-chain compromise of frontend assets (CDN or third-party scripts altered) leading to client-side code injection that modifies content, steals tokens, or manipulates UI to perform unintended actions.
• Mitigation Strategy: Use Subresource Integrity (SRI), strict Content Security Policy (CSP), lock down CDN access and automated CI/CD signing of artifacts, audit third-party libraries, run supply-chain scanning, serve minimal third-party JS, monitor integrity violations via reporting.

THR-003 - Edge Layer (CDN & API Gateway)

• Category: Spoofing
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: API key or token theft via misconfigured edge auth or exposure in logs leading to attackers invoking backend APIs as legitimate services or users (e.g., stolen API Gateway key or insecure JWT handling at edge).
• Mitigation Strategy: Enforce short-lived tokens, mutual TLS for service-to-service, do not log secrets, restrict API keys by origin/whitelist, rotate keys, use edge-auth validation combined with backend verification, throttle and monitor edge requests.
• Controls Applied: Edge Auth, mTLS
• Control Effectiveness: Medium
• Residual Risk Level: Medium
• Status: ⚠️ Requires Review

THR-005 - Application Services (Post CRUD, Workflow Engine)

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: High | Impact: Medium
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: Unauthorized modification or deletion of post content or metadata via insufficient input validation or insecure APIs (malicious client or internal abuse altering published content or scheduled times).
• Mitigation Strategy: Enforce strong server-side input validation and normalization, use optimistic concurrency/versioning for posts, validate user permissions for each operation, maintain immutable version history, implement soft delete with retention and recovery workflows.

THR-006 - Data Storage (Relational DB / Object Store)

• Category: Information Disclosure
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: Sensitive data exposure: PII, drafts, or agent-rule definitions leaked due to misconfigured backups, publicly accessible S3 buckets, or weak DB access controls.
• Mitigation Strategy: Encrypt sensitive data at rest using KMS-managed keys, enforce least privilege on storage buckets and DB accounts, block public ACLs on object store, audit backup access, use IAM policies and VPC endpoints, scan for exposed buckets, rotate keys and revoke unused credentials.
• Controls Applied: KMS, IAM policies
• Control Effectiveness: High
• Residual Risk Level: Medium
• Status: ⚠️ Requires Review

THR-007 - Frontend Layer / WebSockets

• Category: Information Disclosure
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: CSRF or token leakage in browser: JWTs or session cookies leaked via XSS, or over insecure origin, allowing attackers to hijack sessions and read content or perform actions.
• Mitigation Strategy: Store tokens in httpOnly, Secure cookies or use in-memory storage, implement anti-CSRF tokens for state-changing requests, protect against XSS (CSP, output encoding), use SameSite cookie attributes, enforce HTTPS-only.
• Controls Applied: CSP, SameSite, httpOnly
• Control Effectiveness: Medium
• Residual Risk Level: Medium
• Status: ⚠️ Requires Review

THR-008 - Application Services (Prolog Agent Engine)

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: Attackers modify agent rules or execution context (malicious Prolog rules or malicious data fed to agents) to cause inappropriate publication, data exfiltration, or to bypass moderation logic.
• Mitigation Strategy: Only allow authorized users to modify agent rules, store rule changes in audited, versioned repositories, sandbox agent runtime, apply strict input validation for rules and agent inputs, use immutable logs for agent actions, require code review/approval for rule changes.

THR-009 - Application Services (Prolog Agent Engine)

• Category: Information Disclosure
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: Agent outputs or intermediate context contains sensitive PII or secrets which get published to channels (e.g., agent enriches content with PII from DB) accidentally exposing data across external channels.
• Mitigation Strategy: Data classification and taint-tracking for agent inputs/outputs, policy checks to block PII from being included in outbound content, enforce masking/redaction, require human review for posts flagged as containing sensitive data, log and alert policy violations.

THR-010 - External Integrations (Social APIs / Email)

• Category: Spoofing
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: Compromised external channel credentials (OAuth tokens) allow attackers to publish to social/email channels as the platform; stolen refresh tokens can be reused to extend access.
• Mitigation Strategy: Store channel credentials encrypted in Secrets Manager, use short-lived tokens where supported, implement token rotation, limit scopes required, maintain per-channel audit trail, implement out-of-band re-auth validation for high-impact actions, detect abnormal publishing patterns and revoke tokens on anomalies.
• Controls Applied: Secrets Manager, Token Rotation
• Control Effectiveness: Medium
• Residual Risk Level: Medium
• Status: ⚠️ Requires Review

THR-012 - Data Storage (Audit Log / Append-only)

• Category: Repudiation
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: Attacker or rogue admin alters or deletes audit logs to hide malicious actions, undermining forensic investigation and non-repudiation guarantees.
• Mitigation Strategy: Use append-only, immutable storage for audit logs with cryptographic integrity (WORM or ledger), replicate logs to a separate immutable service or external SIEM, restrict access to logs, alert on log access patterns and integrity failures.
• Controls Applied: Immutable Logging, SIEM
• Control Effectiveness: High
• Residual Risk Level: Medium
• Status: ⚠️ Requires Review

THR-013 - Frontend Layer / Application Services

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: High | Impact: Medium
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS): malformed user content (posts, comments, attachments metadata) rendered without proper escaping leading to session theft, UI manipulation, or drive-by actions.
• Mitigation Strategy: Sanitize and encode all user-generated content on output, use context-aware encoding libraries, adopt a secure templating framework, enforce CSP, validate rich-text inputs and strip dangerous HTML/JS, sanitize attachment metadata.

THR-015 - Application Services / Message Queue Workers

• Category: Denial of Service
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: Queue flooding or worker exhaustion: attackers submit many heavy tasks (large file uploads, scheduled publish spam) overwhelming workers and delaying legitimate processing (notifications, publishing).
• Mitigation Strategy: Enforce rate-limiting and quotas per user/workspace, validate and limit payload size, use prioritized queues, autoscale workers with backpressure controls, implement circuit breakers and task timeouts.

THR-016 - Edge Layer / API Gateway

• Category: Denial of Service
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: Layer 7 DDoS targeting the API Gateway or WebSockets, causing service disruption for real-time collaboration and content publishing.
• Mitigation Strategy: Use CDN/WAF DDoS protections, traffic scrubbing, rate limiting, autoscaling with graceful degradation strategies (e.g., degrade real-time features, preserve core API), blackhole attack traffic and use geo/IP blocks selectively.

THR-017 - Data Storage (DB / Search / Analytics)

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: Injection attacks (SQL/NoSQL/Elasticsearch): unsanitized queries or dynamic search DSL allow attackers to run arbitrary queries, exfiltrate data, or corrupt indexes/search results.
• Mitigation Strategy: Use parameterized queries/ORMs, validate and sanitize search inputs, apply least privilege DB accounts, rate-limit heavy queries, restrict admin operations, enable query logging and anomaly detection for unusual queries.

THR-018 - Attachments / Object Store / File Scanning

• Category: Information Disclosure
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: Malicious or sensitive attachments stored with public ACLs or insufficient scanning leading to malware distribution or PII leakage from attachments.
• Mitigation Strategy: Scan file uploads with antivirus/ML scanning before storage, store attachments privately with signed URLs for retrieval, enforce content policy, restrict file types and size, use metadata tagging for sensitive files, enforce retention policies.
• Controls Applied: AV/ML scanning, Private buckets
• Control Effectiveness: Medium
• Residual Risk Level: Medium
• Status: ⚠️ Requires Review

THR-021 - Application Services / Channel Connectors

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: Low | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: API abuse via publishing connectors: attackers craft malformed channel payloads to cause remote code execution on connector adapters or bypass formatting checks causing unintended content being posted.
• Mitigation Strategy: Validate and sanitize outbound payloads, run connectors in isolated containers with least privilege, maintain strict input schemas, fuzz test connectors, enforce timeouts and rate limits on connector operations.

THR-022 - Infrastructure & Security Services (KMS/Secrets Manager)

• Category: Spoofing
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: Compromised cloud credentials or IAM misconfiguration allow attackers to access KMS/Secrets Manager and decrypt secrets or impersonate services to exfiltrate secrets and rotate keys.
• Mitigation Strategy: Enforce least privilege IAM, use strong MFA and hardware-backed keys for admins, enable key access logs/alerts, rotate keys, use access boundary policies, isolate secrets access to ephemeral roles, enable TF plan reviews for infra changes.
• Controls Applied: IAM best practices, MFA
• Control Effectiveness: Medium
• Residual Risk Level: Medium
• Status: ⚠️ Requires Review

THR-025 - External Integrations (Third-party services)

• Category: Denial of Service
• Likelihood: High | Impact: Medium
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: Third-party rate limits or outages (social APIs, email providers, file scanning vendors) prevent publishing or scanning causing backlog, delayed publishing, or missed moderation.
• Mitigation Strategy: Design connectors with retries/backoff, implement graceful degradation (queue for later publish, mark pending), use multiple vendor fallbacks for critical services, monitor third-party SLA and alert on failures, surface degraded status to users.

THR-026 - Application Services / Workers

• Category: Elevation of Privilege
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: Worker or microservice compromise leads to lateral movement and elevated privileges if service-to-service auth is weak, enabling access to DB or Secrets Manager beyond intended scope.
• Mitigation Strategy: Use mutual TLS or service identity tokens for S2S auth, enforce least privilege service roles, apply network segmentation (VPC, subnets), employ runtime protection and EDR for hosts, conduct regular pentests and microsegmentation.

THR-027 - Data Storage (Analytics/Search)

• Category: Information Disclosure
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: Search or analytics cluster exposure (e.g., Elasticsearch) with default credentials or open network leads to mass data leakage of posts, drafts, PII, and agent logs.
• Mitigation Strategy: Require auth for analytics/search clusters, disable public access, use IP/VPC restrictions, enforce TLS and strong auth, monitor for snapshot exports, rotate credentials and snapshot encryption, regularly scan for exposed clusters.
• Controls Applied: Auth/TLS, VPC restrict
• Control Effectiveness: High
• Residual Risk Level: Medium
• Status: ⚠️ Requires Review

THR-030 - Infrastructure & Security Services (Backups / DR)

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: Low | Impact: High
• Initial Risk Level: High
• Description: Backup compromise or unauthorized restore (attacker deletes backups or restores malicious snapshots) causing data loss or reintroduction of compromised data into production.
• Mitigation Strategy: Encrypt backups, restrict backup/restore operations to privileged roles with MFA, maintain off-site immutable backups, test restore procedures, track backup integrity and access logs, use multi-party approval for restores.
• Controls Applied: Immutable backups, MFA
• Control Effectiveness: High
• Residual Risk Level: Medium
• Status: ⚠️ Requires Review

Medium Risk Threats

THR-011 - External Integrations (Inbound Webhooks)

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: Medium
• Initial Risk Level: Medium
• Description: Unverified inbound webhooks or callbacks manipulated by attackers to inject false delivery receipts, trigger workflows, or corrupt system state.
• Mitigation Strategy: Validate webhook signatures, restrict webhook endpoints to whitelisted IPs where possible, use mutual TLS for callbacks, implement idempotency checks and strict schema validation, rate-limit webhook handlers.

THR-014 - Frontend/API (CSRF)

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: Medium
• Initial Risk Level: Medium
• Description: CSRF attacks cause authenticated users to perform actions (publish, delete, change settings) via forged requests if anti-CSRF protections are missing for state-changing endpoints.
• Mitigation Strategy: Implement anti-CSRF tokens for non-idempotent operations, enforce SameSite cookies and require origin/Referer header checks for critical endpoints, use double-submit cookie patterns for APIs when cookies are used.

THR-019 - Notifications (Email / In-app)

• Category: Information Disclosure
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: Medium
• Initial Risk Level: Medium
• Description: Notification spoofing or information leakage via email digests or notifications where sensitive content is included in email/body, exposing data to third parties or attackers intercepting email.
• Mitigation Strategy: Minimize sensitive data in emails, use secure links with short-lived tokens to view content, sign emails (DKIM, SPF, DMARC), encrypt sensitive digests where appropriate, allow users to adjust notification sensitivity settings.

THR-020 - Reporting / Analytics

• Category: Information Disclosure
• Likelihood: Low | Impact: Medium
• Initial Risk Level: Medium
• Description: Aggregated analytics or productivity metrics reveal user-sensitive behavior or PII if dashboards or exports lack proper access controls or are cached publicly.
• Mitigation Strategy: Enforce RBAC on dashboards and export features, anonymize PII in analytics, restrict direct access to analytics databases, cache sensitive reports in private storage, log exports and require approval for bulk exports.

THR-023 - Application Services / Workflow Engine

• Category: Repudiation
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: Medium
• Initial Risk Level: Medium
• Description: Lack of reliable action attribution: actions by agents or users cannot be reliably linked to an identity (e.g., agent-run publish without clear audit), enabling denial of responsibility or tampering without traceability.
• Mitigation Strategy: Attach cryptographic signatures or provenance metadata to automated agent actions, maintain immutable audit trails with timestamps and actor context, separate human approvals in workflows, ensure audit logs are tamper-evident and accessible to SOC.
• Controls Applied: Immutable audit logs
• Control Effectiveness: High
• Residual Risk Level: Low
• Status: ⚠️ Requires Review

THR-024 - Frontend / API (Search, Mentions)

• Category: Information Disclosure
• Likelihood: High | Impact: Low
• Initial Risk Level: Medium
• Description: Autocomplete/mentions enumeration: attackers enumerate user lists via search/mentions endpoint allowing reconnaissance of registered users, agents or workspace membership.
• Mitigation Strategy: Rate-limit search/mentions endpoints, require authentication and proper authorization to list users, return fuzzy results with partial info, add throttling and per-user caps, monitor for enumeration patterns.

THR-028 - Application Services (Scheduling & Multichannel Publication)

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: Low | Impact: Medium
• Initial Risk Level: Medium
• Description: Scheduler manipulation: attackers change scheduled publish times or channel-specific formatting to cause undesired posts or duplicate publishing across channels, damaging reputation or causing misinformation spread.
• Mitigation Strategy: Validate scheduler requests, enforce authorization checks for schedule changes, keep immutable schedule events with audit trail and ability to rollback, provide confirmation/approval flows for high-impact scheduled posts, alert on mass schedule changes.

THR-029 - Frontend / Application (Real-time Collaboration)

• Category: Denial of Service
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: Medium
• Initial Risk Level: Medium
• Description: Real-time presence or collaboration feature abused to spam presence/state updates (websocket flood) consuming bandwidth and CPU, causing degraded UX and potential disconnection of legitimate users.
• Mitigation Strategy: Implement per-connection rate-limits, message size limits, authentication for socket connections, validate and drop malformed messages, use gateway-level protections and scale websockets via clustered solutions with backpressure.

Risk Reduction Summary:

• Critical Risk Reduction: 2 threats reduced from Critical to lower levels
• High Risk Reduction: 9 threats reduced from High to lower levels
• Residual Risk Distribution: 2 threats remain at Critical/High level

5.3. Risk Summary

The most critical threats stem from compromised credentials, broken or missing authorization, and data exposure in storage and integrations. Highest-priority areas: strengthening authentication (MFA, short-lived tokens), enforcing fine-grained RBAC/authorization (policy-as-code/OPA), protecting secrets/KMS and external integration tokens, hardening data stores (private buckets, encrypted backups, immutable logs), and protecting the frontend supply chain (CSP/SRI). Key attack vectors include stolen credentials (phishing/credential stuffing), exploitation of misconfigured cloud services (public S3, open Elasticsearch), API abuse at the edge (stolen API keys, insufficient rate-limiting), and malicious Prolog agent rule changes or un-sandboxed agent outputs. Realistic attacker flows include: phish credentials -> reuse tokens to bypass RBAC -> modify agent rules/publish content -> delete audit logs and exfiltrate DB or attachments. Defenses should prioritize: (1) identity and access management hardening (MFA, short-lived credentials, service identity), (2) data protection (encryption, access controls, immutable logs), (3) secure development and deployment (CSP, SRI, sanitization, parameterized queries), (4) operational controls (WAF, rate-limiting, DDoS protection, SIEM alerts), and (5) resilient integration designs (retries, vendor redundancy, signed webhooks). Overall posture is medium-high risk until robust IAM, data protections, and agent sandboxing are implemented. Immediate remediation should focus on credential protection, RBAC enforcement, secrets management, audit immutability, and frontend/content sanitization to reduce attack surface and mitigate likely high-impact scenarios.

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6. Multi-Standard Security Requirements Mapping

This section maps each functional requirement to specific security controls from multiple industry standards: OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS), NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, and ISO 27001:2022. This multi-standard approach provides comprehensive coverage across application-level, enterprise-level, and organizational-level security domains:

• OWASP ASVS: Application-level security controls (code, APIs, authentication, session management)
• NIST SP 800-53: Enterprise security controls (governance, risk management, incident response)
• ISO 27001: Information security management controls (policies, procedures, organizational controls)

Requirements are prioritized based on risk assessment and compliance needs, with controls selected from the most appropriate standard(s) for each requirement type.

6.1. Recommended ASVS Compliance Level

Recommended Level: L2

Level 2: Standard

Recommended for most production applications. Provides comprehensive security coverage suitable for applications handling sensitive data or operating in regulated environments. Includes controls for authentication, authorization, data protection, and secure communications.

The recommendation considers factors such as:

• Data sensitivity and classification levels
• Regulatory and compliance requirements (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.)
• Threat landscape and risk assessment from threat modeling
• Business criticality and potential impact of security incidents

All security controls referenced in this document align with this recommended compliance level.

6.2. Requirements Mapping

This section maps each high-level requirement to specific security controls from multiple standards (OWASP ASVS, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001) with detailed descriptions, relevance explanations, and integration guidance. Controls are grouped by standard for clarity.

6.2.1. REQ-001: User registration and login with role assignment and profile management

OWASP ASVS Controls

V2.1

Requirement: Verify that the application implements secure credential management for user registration and authentication, including secure password storage, password complexity, and recovery mechanisms.

Relevance: This control directly addresses secure credential handling during user registration and login, ensuring passwords and recovery mechanisms are implemented securely. It applies to profile-related authentication flows and account recovery features.

Integration Tips: Use proven password hashing algorithms (bcrypt/Argon2) and enforce password complexity and recovery via secure, rate-limited flows. Store only salted hashes and avoid sending credentials in logs or telemetry.

Verification Method: Review implementation of password hashing, inspect registration and recovery flows, and perform code review and pentest to verify no plaintext storage or insecure recovery.

Level: L2 | Priority: Critical

V2.2

Requirement: Verify that the application securely manages sessions and session tokens (creation, expiration, invalidation) to prevent session fixation and hijacking.

Relevance: Ensures sessions created after login are secure and properly invalidated upon logout or role changes, protecting profile and role-sensitive operations.

Integration Tips: Use secure, HttpOnly cookies, short session timeouts, token rotation on privilege changes, and revoke sessions on password changes. Ensure logout invalidates tokens server-side.

Verification Method: Test session handling, token revocation, and behavior during role changes; review cookie flags and session expiration policies.

Level: L2 | Priority: Critical

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

IA-2

Requirement: Identify and authenticate users and devices before allowing access to organizational systems. Establish and manage user accounts, including account creation, activation, modification, disabling, and removal.

Relevance: Covers the lifecycle of user accounts and ensures proper processes for creating, activating, and disabling accounts used by registration and profile management. Ensures authentication gating before access.

Integration Tips: Implement automated account lifecycle workflows (provisioning/deprovisioning) integrated with admin UI and identity provider. Enforce account status checks on each authentication and restrict suspended accounts.

Verification Method: Inspect account management procedures, test account creation/modification/deactivation flows, and review logs for corresponding events.

Priority: Critical

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.9.2.1

Requirement: A formal user registration and de-registration process should be implemented to enable assignment of access rights.

Relevance: Mandates formalized processes for registering and de-registering users, directly applicable to onboarding, role assignment, and profile lifecycle. Helps ensure consistent access rights assignment.

Integration Tips: Document and enforce registration/de-registration procedures, include approvals for role assignment, and log actions. Align with HR/identity sources to automate deprovisioning.

Verification Method: Review documented procedures and audit trails, and verify de-registration cases are handled correctly in the system.

Priority: High

6.2.2. REQ-002: Role-based access control supporting Admin, Editor, Contributor, Agent

OWASP ASVS Controls

V4.1

Requirement: Verify that the application enforces role-based access controls and separation of duties. All privileged functions must be restricted to authorized roles.

Relevance: Directly mandates RBAC enforcement and separation of duties necessary to restrict Admin/Editor/Contributor/Agent functions. Ensures privileged actions are role-restricted.

Integration Tips: Design a role matrix for permissions, enforce server-side authorization checks for every operation, and adopt least privilege for role definitions. Implement role change workflows with audits.

Verification Method: Code review for authorization checks, RBAC unit tests exercising each role, and penetration tests attempting privilege escalation.

Level: L2 | Priority: Critical

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

AC-6

Requirement: The organization employs the principle of least privilege, ensuring users and processes have only the access necessary.

Relevance: Reinforces that roles (Admin/Editor/Contributor/Agent) should be scoped to minimum necessary privileges to reduce risk of misuse.

Integration Tips: Map permissions to job functions, avoid broad ‘superuser’ permissions, and implement role templates with the smallest required scopes that can be expanded with change controls.

Verification Method: Review permissions assigned to roles, test role-based actions, and validate no role has unnecessary access using access reviews.

Priority: Critical

AC-2

Requirement: The organization manages information system accounts, including establishing, activating, modifying, disabling, and removing accounts.

Relevance: Supports RBAC by ensuring accounts and assigned roles are properly managed over their lifecycle, preventing orphaned privileged accounts.

Integration Tips: Implement role assignment workflows with approvals and maintain an authoritative source for role membership; integrate with identity provider for centralized management.

Verification Method: Audit account lifecycle events and role changes; verify disabled accounts cannot sign in or perform role-based actions.

Priority: High

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.9.1.2

Requirement: Users should only be provided access to the network and network services that they have been specifically authorized to use.

Relevance: Applies to ensuring each role has explicit authorization for the services/features they require, aligning with RBAC enforcement across the platform.

Integration Tips: Document role-to-service mappings, enforce network/service-level controls for admin functions, and use network segmentation for sensitive role-only services.

Verification Method: Inspect role access lists and network/service access controls, conduct access reviews, and verify through testing that unauthorized role access is blocked.

Priority: High

6.2.3. REQ-003: Channel workspace creation and management (multi-tenant workspaces)

OWASP ASVS Controls

V4.12

Requirement: Verify tenant isolation to prevent data leakage across tenants in multi-tenant applications, including authorization checks, data partitioning, and tenant-aware queries.

Relevance: Directly addresses the need to prevent cross-tenant data access in channel workspaces by enforcing tenant-aware authorization and data partitioning.

Integration Tips: Implement tenant identifiers at DB row level, ensure all queries enforce tenant scoping server-side, and perform automated tests for tenant isolation. Consider separate storage/keys for sensitive tenants if required.

Verification Method: Penetration testing for cross-tenant access, code review for tenant filters, and runtime checks for tenant ID propagation in all data paths.

Level: L3 | Priority: Critical

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

SC-3

Requirement: Monitor and control communications at the external boundary and at key internal boundaries within the system to prevent unauthorized data flows.

Relevance: Supports isolation by controlling boundaries between tenant domains and restricting communications that could enable data flows across tenants.

Integration Tips: Use network segmentation, service-level access controls, and API gateways to enforce tenant boundaries. Monitor internal network flows for anomalies that could indicate cross-tenant leakage.

Verification Method: Review boundary enforcement configurations, perform network flow analysis and simulated attacks across tenant boundaries.

Priority: High

AC-19

Requirement: Access controls must account for cloud and multi-tenant deployments and ensure tenant-specific access restrictions.

Relevance: Ensures access controls are designed for multi-tenant environments and account for cloud-specific challenges in workspace management.

Integration Tips: Design access control policies that include tenant context and enforce them in identity/authorization middleware. Validate cloud service configurations for multi-tenant isolation.

Verification Method: Validate access control enforcement across cloud services and verify tenant-specific policies through configuration review and testing.

Priority: High

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.13.1.1

Requirement: Networks should be managed and controlled to protect information in systems and applications.

Relevance: Provides governance to ensure networks and services used by multi-tenant workspaces are managed to protect tenant data.

Integration Tips: Adopt policies for network segmentation, use secure multi-tenant architectures, and include tenant isolation requirements in procurement of cloud services.

Verification Method: Review network policies, architecture diagrams, and enforcement logs; perform architecture review for tenant protection.

Priority: Medium

6.2.4. REQ-004: Create, edit, delete and version blog posts

OWASP ASVS Controls

V8.1

Requirement: Verify that the application enforces integrity controls for data modification, including versioning, change history, and protection against unauthorized edits.

Relevance: Specifically addresses the need for versioning and integrity controls when creating, editing, and deleting posts to prevent unauthorized or accidental data loss.

Integration Tips: Implement immutable version storage or append-only change logs, maintain change authorship metadata, and provide restore capabilities. Enforce server-side authorization for deletions.

Verification Method: Review versioning implementation, inspect audit trails for edits/deletes, and attempt unauthorized edit/delete in tests.

Level: L2 | Priority: Critical

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

SI-7

Requirement: The organization protects the integrity of information and software by implementing mechanisms to detect and prevent unauthorized changes.

Relevance: Supports integrity protection of blog content and detection of unauthorized modifications to posts or versions.

Integration Tips: Use integrity checks (hashing, signatures) for stored content versions and monitor for unexpected changes. Implement authorization checks for state-changing operations.

Verification Method: Inspect integrity mechanisms, run tamper tests, and review alerts/logs for detected integrity violations.

Priority: High

AU-2

Requirement: Determine and capture auditable events and user actions affecting system integrity.

Relevance: Ensures that edits/deletes/version operations are included in auditable events to detect misuse or errors.

Integration Tips: Define audit event lists covering content operations and configure systems to capture and forward them to retention systems.

Verification Method: Verify event configuration, test event generation for content operations, and confirm their presence in audit stores.

Priority: High

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.12.4.1

Requirement: Events and user activities should be logged to provide audit trails for changes and modifications.

Relevance: Logging of create/edit/delete operations provides auditability for content lifecycle and supports forensic and compliance needs.

Integration Tips: Log content change events with user ID, timestamp, and before/after metadata. Protect logs against tampering and centralize them for analysis.

Verification Method: Review logs for content events and verify log integrity and retention policy adherence.

Priority: High

6.2.5. REQ-005: Assign posts to agents and human users (task/ownership assignments)

OWASP ASVS Controls

V4.3

Requirement: Verify that authorization checks are enforced server-side for access to resources, including assignment and delegation operations.

Relevance: Ensures assignment actions (assigning posts to agents/users) are authorized and not susceptible to tampering or privilege escalation.

Integration Tips: Perform server-side authorization on assignment APIs, record assignment metadata, and validate that only permitted roles can assign or take ownership.

Verification Method: Test assignment endpoints for improper authorization by attempting role-switched operations and review server-side enforcement.

Level: L2 | Priority: High

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

AC-5

Requirement: The organization separates duties to reduce the risk of malevolent activity without collusion.

Relevance: Encourages separation of responsibilities so assignment and approval actions are distributed to reduce misuse risk.

Integration Tips: Define role boundaries for assignment vs approval; enforce multi-person approvals for sensitive ownership changes when applicable.

Verification Method: Review role responsibilities and simulate assignment workflows to ensure separation of duties is respected.

Priority: Medium

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.9.2.2

Requirement: Implement procedures for granting and revoking access rights based on job roles and responsibilities.

Relevance: Maps to ensuring ownership assignments align with provisioning processes and only authorized users/agents receive assignment permissions.

Integration Tips: Tie assignment permissions to access provisioning processes and ensure revocation workflows remove assignment capabilities when roles change.

Verification Method: Audit assignment permissions and conduct access reviews correlating role changes with assignment capability changes.

Priority: High

6.2.6. REQ-006: Schedule posts and tag them for multichannel publication

OWASP ASVS Controls

V10.3

Requirement: Verify that time-based actions such as scheduled posts are authorized, validated, and protected from manipulation.

Relevance: Directly relevant to scheduled publication — ensures scheduling operations cannot be spoofed or altered by attackers.

Integration Tips: Authenticate and authorize scheduling requests, use tamper-resistant scheduling queues, and validate scheduled metadata before execution.

Verification Method: Attempt to tamper with scheduled jobs, review scheduler logs, and validate authorization checks on scheduling APIs.

Level: L2 | Priority: High

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

CM-6

Requirement: Establish and enforce configuration settings for applications, including scheduling and automated tasks.

Relevance: Ensures scheduler configuration and behavior are under controlled configuration management to prevent unauthorized changes to scheduled publication.

Integration Tips: Version-control scheduler configs, restrict config changes to authorized admins, and audit configuration changes to scheduled operations.

Verification Method: Review configuration management records for scheduler settings and test that unauthorized config changes are blocked.

Priority: Medium

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.12.1.2

Requirement: Changes to systems and scheduled operations should be controlled and logged.

Relevance: Supports controlled changes to scheduling logic and the need to log schedule-related changes and tag assignments for auditability.

Integration Tips: Integrate scheduling changes into change management processes and require approvals for schedule modifications affecting publication.

Verification Method: Review change request records, and inspect logs for schedule change events.

Priority: Medium

6.2.7. REQ-007: Attach files and inline media to posts with metadata

OWASP ASVS Controls

V5.1

Requirement: Verify that file uploads are restricted, validated, scanned for malware, and stored securely with proper access controls and metadata handling.

Relevance: Directly addresses secure handling of file attachments and inline media, including validation and malware scanning.

Integration Tips: Enforce content-type checks, limit file sizes and types, scan uploads for malware, store files in secured object storage with metadata, and implement ACLs.

Verification Method: Attempt malicious uploads in testing, inspect storage permissions, and verify malware scanning is in place and effective.

Level: L2 | Priority: Critical

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

SI-3

Requirement: Implement protections to detect and respond to malicious code, including scanning uploaded files.

Relevance: Ensures that media attachments are scanned and systems are protected from malicious file content execution or embedding.

Integration Tips: Integrate AV/AML scanning into upload pipeline, quarantine suspicious files, and log scan results tied to file metadata.

Verification Method: Review scanning integrations, test known-bad samples, and check quarantine and alerting behavior.

Priority: High

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.8.3.3

Requirement: Handling and protection of assets (including files) should be defined to maintain confidentiality, integrity and availability.

Relevance: Governance control that mandates how attachments and media assets are handled, including metadata and protection.

Integration Tips: Classify media assets, document metadata handling requirements, and include storage/protection measures in asset handling policies.

Verification Method: Review asset handling policy and check that storage and metadata handling align with classified requirements.

Priority: Medium

6.2.8. REQ-008: Threaded comments, mention (@) notifications, and comment moderation

OWASP ASVS Controls

V5.4

Requirement: Verify that user supplied content is properly validated and output encoded to prevent XSS in comments, mentions and other user-generated content.

Relevance: Prevents XSS and injection via threaded comments and mentions which are common vectors in UGC features.

Integration Tips: Sanitize and contextually encode all user-generated content before rendering, use a whitelist-based sanitizer and avoid unsafe innerHTML usage.

Verification Method: Perform automated and manual XSS testing on comment fields and mentions, and review sanitization libraries used.

Level: L2 | Priority: Critical

V10.4

Requirement: Verify protections against abusive functionality, including rate limits and moderation controls for user-generated content.

Relevance: Addresses moderation, mention spam, and abusive behavior by requiring anti-abuse controls such as rate limiting and moderation workflows.

Integration Tips: Implement rate limiting per user/IP, moderation queues, automated abuse detection heuristics, and admin moderation tools with audit trails.

Verification Method: Test rate limiting and moderation workflows; simulate abusive behaviors to confirm detection and throttling.

Level: L2 | Priority: High

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

AU-2

Requirement: Determine and capture auditable events such as comment moderation actions and user mentions.

Relevance: Ensures moderation actions, deletions, and mention-triggered notifications are auditable for accountability and dispute resolution.

Integration Tips: Log moderation actions with actor, timestamp, content ID, and justification. Ensure logs are immutable and retained per policy.

Verification Method: Review moderation logs and audit trails for completeness and tamper resistance.

Priority: Medium

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.12.6.1

Requirement: Implement controls to detect and prevent malicious content and code within user submissions.

Relevance: Adds a governance expectation for detecting malicious content in comments and mitigating security threats from UGC.

Integration Tips: Include comment scanning in vulnerability management, maintain signature/heuristic feeds for malicious content, and integrate with moderation tools.

Verification Method: Confirm scanning is scheduled, check detection logs, and validate remediation workflows exist.

Priority: Medium

6.2.9. REQ-009: Post lifecycle and status tracking (Draft, In Review, Published)

OWASP ASVS Controls

V8.5

Requirement: Verify that application enforces workflow state transitions and prevents unauthorized state changes, with audit trails for status changes.

Relevance: Directly applicable to lifecycle state enforcement; prevents unauthorized transitions and ensures traceability for status changes.

Integration Tips: Implement state machine patterns with server-side enforcement, record state transitions with actor/timestamp, and restrict transitions by role.

Verification Method: Attempt unauthorized state transitions in tests, review transition logs, and verify role restrictions are enforced.

Level: L2 | Priority: Critical

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

CM-3

Requirement: Changes to the system configuration and state must be controlled and documented.

Relevance: Applies to changes in lifecycle processes and ensures changes to workflow rules and status behaviors are controlled.

Integration Tips: Include workflow rules in change management, require approvals for changes to state logic, and maintain versioned workflow configurations.

Verification Method: Review change records for workflow changes and validate rollback and testing procedures.

Priority: Medium

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.14.2.5

Requirement: Monitor and review services to ensure status and performance meet requirements.

Relevance: Useful when lifecycle management uses third-party services or agents; ensures their status handling aligns with expectations.

Integration Tips: Monitor third-party components affecting lifecycle states and include SLAs for state propagation.

Verification Method: Review monitoring dashboards and third-party vendor reports tied to lifecycle handling.

Priority: Low

6.2.10. REQ-010: Real-time collaborative editing/updates and status change propagation

OWASP ASVS Controls

V10.5

Requirement: Verify that concurrent operations (such as collaborative edits) are protected against race conditions, improper merging, and unauthorized overwrites.

Relevance: Addresses concurrency risks in collaborative editing ensuring edits merge safely and unauthorized overwrites can’t occur.

Integration Tips: Use operational transformation/CRDTs for merges, implement optimistic/pessimistic locking as needed, and validate concurrency controls under load.

Verification Method: Stress and concurrency testing with simulated multi-user edits and review merge/conflict resolution code.

Level: L3 | Priority: High

V2.2

Requirement: Verify that the application securely manages sessions and session tokens (creation, expiration, invalidation) to prevent session fixation and hijacking.

Relevance: Secure sessions are critical in collaborative features to ensure only authorized participants can make edits and propagate status changes.

Integration Tips: Use secure token binding for real-time channels, revalidate tokens for critical operations, and revoke sessions promptly on suspicious activity.

Verification Method: Assess session token usage over real-time channels, and test re-auth/reauthorization on critical operations.

Level: L2 | Priority: Critical

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

SC-5

Requirement: Protect communications and real-time services from denial-of-service and ensure resilient message handling.

Relevance: Real-time services require resilience against DoS and messaging overload that could impair collaboration or cause inconsistent states.

Integration Tips: Implement rate limiting, backpressure mechanisms, and circuit breakers for real-time channels; isolate real-time infrastructure.

Verification Method: Conduct load and DoS resilience testing, and review rate-limiting and queueing behaviors.

Priority: High

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.12.1.1

Requirement: Operating procedures should be documented and maintained to support secure operations.

Relevance: Operational procedures help run and secure real-time collaboration services and define handling of status propagation incidents.

Integration Tips: Document runbooks for real-time services, include incident handling for sync conflicts, and train operators on procedures.

Verification Method: Review runbooks and procedure tests; ensure on-call teams can follow documented steps.

Priority: Medium

6.2.11. REQ-011: Activity feed of recent system actions and notifications

OWASP ASVS Controls

V8.3

Requirement: Verify that the application logs security-relevant events and provides monitoring capabilities for recent activity and alerts.

Relevance: Activity feed relies on capturing and presenting system actions; logging/monitoring ensures the feed has reliable, tamper-evident data.

Integration Tips: Capture relevant events with user/context metadata, protect feed generation from exposing sensitive data, and display only authorized entries per user.

Verification Method: Review event capture design, validate feed access controls, and check logs for completeness and integrity.

Level: L2 | Priority: High

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

AU-6

Requirement: Audit records must be reviewed and analyzed for indications of inappropriate activity.

Relevance: Ensures activity feed and notifications are monitored for anomalies and used in security review processes.

Integration Tips: Integrate activity feed with monitoring/alerting systems and define processes to review feed for suspicious patterns.

Verification Method: Check monitoring alerts derived from feed events and review periodic audit analyses.

Priority: Medium

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.12.4.1

Requirement: Events and user activities should be logged to provide audit trails for changes and modifications.

Relevance: Supports the requirement to have activity trails that can feed the activity stream and provide accountability.

Integration Tips: Define which events are included in the feed, log them with provenance, and ensure retention and protection aligned to policy.

Verification Method: Inspect logs and feed correlation to ensure expected events are present and protected.

Priority: Medium

6.2.12. REQ-012: Prolog-driven agent integration for continuous publishing and moderation

OWASP ASVS Controls

V10.1

Requirement: Verify that automated agent behaviors are authorized, constrained, and auditable to avoid unwanted automation impacts.

Relevance: Directly relevant to ensuring Prolog-driven agents are constrained, auditable, and cannot perform unauthorized publishing or moderation.

Integration Tips: Implement capability limits, require agent actions to be auditable and reversible, and enforce approval gates for high-impact actions.

Verification Method: Review agent behavior rules, simulate agent actions, and verify audit logging and human override capabilities.

Level: L3 | Priority: Critical

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

SI-4

Requirement: Monitor information systems to detect attacks and verify expected operation of automated components.

Relevance: Requires monitoring automated agents to detect unexpected behaviors or compromise, ensuring continuous publishing remains secure.

Integration Tips: Instrument agent runtimes with telemetry, create alerts for anomalous actions, and maintain execution logs for review.

Verification Method: Inspect monitoring dashboards, test anomaly detection for agent behavior, and ensure alerts trigger investigations.

Priority: High

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.6.1.2

Requirement: Segregation of duties should be implemented to reduce the risk of negligent or deliberate system misuse (including automation).

Relevance: Applies to agents by ensuring their privileges are segregated from human operator privileges to reduce abuse risk.

Integration Tips: Limit agent capabilities, separate agent operational accounts from admin accounts, and require approvals for critical automation rules.

Verification Method: Review account entitlements for agent processes and verify separation in configuration and logs.

Priority: High

6.2.13. REQ-013: Automated topic suggestions and content enrichment by agents

OWASP ASVS Controls

V10.2

Requirement: Verify that machine-assisted features (suggestions, enrichment) have appropriate validation, user consent, provenance, and safeguards against misinformation.

Relevance: Ensures suggestions and enrichment are validated, tracked for provenance, and respect user consent and content quality.

Integration Tips: Label machine-generated suggestions, provide provenance metadata, enable user review/override, and implement safeguards (e.g., confidence thresholds).

Verification Method: Review ML/agent output labeling, inspect consent logs, and test override and provenance tracing features.

Level: L3 | Priority: High

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

PL-2

Requirement: Develop policies and procedures for system functionality including automated features and handling of derived content.

Relevance: Requires policies governing automated suggestions and enriched content, including acceptable use and review procedures.

Integration Tips: Create policies for automated content use, incorporate quality checks and human-in-the-loop reviews for sensitive content.

Verification Method: Review policies and audit that procedures are followed for machine-assisted content generation.

Priority: Medium

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.18.1.4

Requirement: Ensure personal data used in processing (including automated processing) is handled in accordance with privacy requirements.

Relevance: If suggestions use personal data, this requires privacy controls, informed consent, and appropriate handling.

Integration Tips: Minimize use of PII in model inputs, document data usage in privacy notices, and enforce retention limits and access controls.

Verification Method: Check data flows for PII into suggestion pipelines and review privacy impact assessments.

Priority: High

6.2.14. REQ-014: Rule-based workflow engine for coordination between agents and users

OWASP ASVS Controls

V10.6

Requirement: Verify that workflow engines enforce authorization, data validation, and secure rule evaluation to prevent privilege escalation or logic bypass.

Relevance: Ensures the workflow engine cannot be manipulated to bypass authorization or execute unintended rules, vital for coordinating agents and users.

Integration Tips: Validate all rule inputs, restrict rule editing to authorized roles, maintain versioned rule sets, and implement sandboxing for rule evaluation.

Verification Method: Conduct threat modeling on workflow rules, review rule change logs, and attempt logic bypass scenarios in tests.

Level: L3 | Priority: Critical

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

CM-8

Requirement: Maintain inventories of components (including workflow engines) and manage their configurations and patches.

Relevance: Requires tracking and managing the workflow engine components to ensure secure patching and configuration management.

Integration Tips: Include workflow engine in CMDB, enforce patch management, and monitor for unauthorized config changes.

Verification Method: Review CMDB entries and patch records for the workflow engine and check vulnerability management tickets.

Priority: Medium

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.12.1.3

Requirement: Ensure systems (including orchestration engines) are managed for capacity and availability.

Relevance: Workflow engines must be available and resilient to avoid lost or repeated actions that could cause security incidents.

Integration Tips: Plan capacity for workflow loads, implement redundancy, and monitor for performance issues that could affect rule execution.

Verification Method: Review capacity plans and monitoring metrics under typical and peak loads.

Priority: Low

6.2.15. REQ-015: Connectors for publishing to Web, Email, and Social channels

OWASP ASVS Controls

V14.1

Requirement: Verify that connectors and integrations (APIs, webhooks) use secure authentication, authorization, and transport protections.

Relevance: Directly applies to external publishing connectors — they must authenticate to external services and protect data in transit.

Integration Tips: Use OAuth or scoped API keys, require TLS for all outbound connections, and implement retry/backoff with integrity checks for published content.

Verification Method: Inspect connector auth flows, examine transport security, and attempt to intercept/manipulate connector traffic in tests.

Level: L2 | Priority: Critical

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

SC-12

Requirement: Protect the confidentiality and integrity of information at rest and in transit using cryptographic mechanisms.

Relevance: Mandates cryptographic protections for content sent via connectors to external channels.

Integration Tips: Encrypt sensitive payloads in transit and at rest, validate TLS configurations, and manage keys via a secure KMS.

Verification Method: Review TLS configs, validate certificate chains, and inspect key management processes.

Priority: High

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.13.2.1

Requirement: Formal transfer policies and procedures should be established to protect transferred information and maintain integrity.

Relevance: Governance control for how content is transferred to external channels and how connectors should preserve integrity and confidentiality.

Integration Tips: Document connector security requirements, include SLAs, and define allowed data types and transformations for each channel.

Verification Method: Review policies and connector configurations to ensure compliance with transfer procedures.

Priority: Medium

6.2.16. REQ-016: Channel-specific content formatting and scheduling controls

OWASP ASVS Controls

V5.2

Requirement: Verify that content is properly sanitized and encoded for each output channel to prevent injection and formatting issues.

Relevance: Prevents injection and formatting vulnerabilities when transforming content per-channel (HTML, email, social media).

Integration Tips: Apply contextual encoding per channel, validate transformations in staging environments, and maintain templates with safe placeholders.

Verification Method: Test per-channel output for injection issues and review templating code for unsafe operations.

Level: L2 | Priority: High

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

SA-9

Requirement: Ensure that external services and transformations used for channel formatting meet security requirements.

Relevance: Applies when using third-party formatting or publishing services to ensure they preserve content integrity and security.

Integration Tips: Validate third-party service security, review their data handling policies, and constrain data sent to external formatters.

Verification Method: Assess third-party security posture and perform contract reviews and security questionnaires.

Priority: Medium

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.14.2.4

Requirement: Security should be integrated into system development, including data transformations and format conversions.

Relevance: Encourages secure engineering practices for channel-specific formatting code and scheduling controls.

Integration Tips: Follow secure coding for transformation logic, include formatting security in SSDL, and perform threat modeling for channel-specific features.

Verification Method: Review SSDL artifacts, threat models, and code reviews for formatting components.

Priority: Medium

6.2.17. REQ-017: Unified dashboard for content and per-channel performance analytics

OWASP ASVS Controls

V8.2

Requirement: Verify that the application minimises stored personal data and implements privacy-preserving mechanisms for analytics.

Relevance: Dashboard analytics may aggregate user/content data; this control ensures minimization and privacy-preserving aggregation.

Integration Tips: Anonymize or pseudonymize identifiers in analytics, apply access controls for detailed reports, and implement differential access for sensitive metrics.

Verification Method: Inspect data flows into analytics, verify anonymization, and review role-based access to dashboards.

Level: L2 | Priority: High

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

PL-2

Requirement: Develop policies and procedures for system functionality including protection of aggregated data and analytics.

Relevance: Requires documented controls for handling aggregated analytics data and policies for access and retention.

Integration Tips: Define analytics data policies, retention periods, and access control procedures; ensure compliance with privacy regulations.

Verification Method: Review policies and audit access to analytics dashboards.

Priority: Medium

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.18.1.4

Requirement: Ensure personal data is handled in accordance with legal, regulatory and contractual requirements.

Relevance: Applicable when analytics include PII or are used for profiling; ensures compliance with privacy obligations.

Integration Tips: Implement DPIAs where necessary, map PII in analytics, and enforce legal controls for cross-border analytics processing.

Verification Method: Check DPIA records and compliance artifacts for analytics processing.

Priority: Medium

6.2.18. REQ-018: Email and in-app notifications including digests and event alerts

OWASP ASVS Controls

V14.3

Requirement: Verify that notification channels are authenticated and protected, with user preferences, throttling and anti-abuse controls.

Relevance: Ensures notifications are delivered securely, respect user preferences, and are protected from abuse or spoofing.

Integration Tips: Authenticate notification senders, allow user opt-in/out controls, rate-limit digests, and sign emails where possible (DKIM/SPF).

Verification Method: Test notification flows for spoofing, verify preference enforcement, and review email signing configurations.

Level: L2 | Priority: High

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

SC-13

Requirement: Protect keys and sensitive information used by messaging systems.

Relevance: Protects keys and secrets used in messaging infrastructure (SMTP credentials, API keys) to prevent unauthorized message sending.

Integration Tips: Store messaging credentials in secure vaults/KMS, rotate keys periodically, and monitor for anomalous sending.

Verification Method: Review key storage and rotation policies and test key access controls.

Priority: Medium

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.7.2.2

Requirement: Users should be made aware of security procedures related to notifications and messaging.

Relevance: Ensures that staff handling notification systems are trained on secure handling and anti-abuse measures.

Integration Tips: Provide training for operators on safe messaging, spam avoidance, and incident response for compromised notification systems.

Verification Method: Review training records and incident handling exercises related to messaging.

Priority: Low

6.2.19. REQ-019: Reporting and export: content lists, agent actions, analytics CSV/JSON

OWASP ASVS Controls

V8.4

Requirement: Verify that data export functions enforce authorization, data minimization, and protect sensitive data during export.

Relevance: Directly covers secure export of content and agent logs, ensuring only authorized exports occur and sensitive data is protected.

Integration Tips: Enforce authorization checks on export endpoints, mask or exclude PII by default, and require justifications for large exports.

Verification Method: Test export endpoints for unauthorized access and inspect exported files for PII leakage.

Level: L2 | Priority: High

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

AC-4

Requirement: Enforce policies on information flow to prevent unauthorized exfiltration.

Relevance: Prevents inappropriate data flows from the system to export files or external consumers.

Integration Tips: Implement DLP checks on export pipelines, restrict export destinations, and log all export operations.

Verification Method: Validate DLP rules, and attempt exports under different roles to confirm enforcement.

Priority: High

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.8.2.3

Requirement: Controls for handling and transferring data to external media should be defined.

Relevance: Applies to exported data being transferred to removable media or external storage and mandates handling controls.

Integration Tips: Define export handling procedures, encrypt exports at rest/in transit, and require approvals for removable media use.

Verification Method: Review export procedures and test encryption and approvals for export to removable media.

Priority: Medium

6.2.20. REQ-020: Audit logging and agent execution logs retention

OWASP ASVS Controls

V8.3

Requirement: Verify that the application logs security-relevant events and provides monitoring capabilities for recent activity and alerts.

Relevance: Provides application-level guidance to ensure relevant events are logged and available for monitoring/alerts.

Integration Tips: Implement centralized logging, alerts on anomalous agent behavior, and regular reviews of monitoring outputs.

Verification Method: Test alerting pipelines and confirm relevant events trigger expected alerts and are retained.

Level: L2 | Priority: High

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

AU-2

Requirement: Determine and capture auditable events and user actions affecting system integrity.

Relevance: Specifies capturing auditable events including agent actions and system operations which is critical for retention and investigation.

Integration Tips: Define required audit events, ensure agent actions are logged with context, and centralize logs for retention policies.

Verification Method: Review event definitions, check logs for agent activity, and confirm events are forwarded to retention stores.

Priority: Critical

AU-9

Requirement: Protect audit information and tools from unauthorized access, modification, and deletion.

Relevance: Ensures logs (including agent execution logs) are protected against tampering and unauthorized access during retention period.

Integration Tips: Store logs in append-only storage or WORM buckets, restrict access via IAM, and implement integrity checks (hashing) for logs.

Verification Method: Verify log protections, test attempts to alter logs, and confirm integrity verification processes.

Priority: Critical

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.12.4.3

Requirement: Ensure that administrator and operator activities are logged and protected.

Relevance: Ensures privileged agent/operator activities are captured and protected as administrator/operator logs.

Integration Tips: Log privileged agent executions with detailed context, enforce stricter retention and review for admin-level activities.

Verification Method: Audit logs for admin/operator agent actions and review protection and access policies.

Priority: High

6.2.21. REQ-021: Secure API and third-party integration management (API keys, rate limits)

OWASP ASVS Controls

V14.2

Requirement: Verify that API keys and credentials are stored securely, rotated, and access limited. Implement rate-limiting and credential scopes for third-party integrations.

Relevance: Directly applicable: ensures API keys are managed securely, rate limiting is enforced, and credential scopes limit damage from compromise.

Integration Tips: Use secrets management/KMS for keys, enforce per-connector rate limits and scopes, rotate keys routinely, and log key usage.

Verification Method: Inspect key storage, rotation schedules, and run abuse tests against rate-limiting controls.

Level: L2 | Priority: Critical

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

AC-17

Requirement: Control and manage remote access methods including API integration points.

Relevance: Ensures APIs are treated as remote access surfaces with appropriate controls to prevent misuse.

Integration Tips: Apply MFA for admin API access, require client auth and IP restrictions where feasible, and monitor API usage.

Verification Method: Review API access controls and test remote API access configurations and logging.

Priority: High

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.9.4.2

Requirement: Where required, secure log-on procedures should be implemented for system access (applies to API authentication too).

Relevance: Applies to APIs by mandating secure authentication procedures for programmatic access.

Integration Tips: Use token-based auth with short lifetimes, mutual TLS for high-trust connectors, and enforce client authentication.

Verification Method: Inspect API authentication mechanisms and validate token lifecycles and auth flows.

Priority: High

6.2.22. REQ-022: Data storage and lifecycle management for posts, users, files, logs

OWASP ASVS Controls

V8.6

Requirement: Verify that data retention and deletion policies are enforced, with secure deletion and archival controls.

Relevance: Covers retention/deletion for posts, user data, files, and logs to ensure policy-driven lifecycle management.

Integration Tips: Implement retention policies at storage layer, ensure secure deletion/wiping for sensitive data, and archive per policy with access controls.

Verification Method: Review retention configurations, test deletion and recovery semantics, and confirm archived data protections.

Level: L2 | Priority: Critical

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

MP-6

Requirement: Sanitize and dispose of media containing sensitive information before disposal or reuse.

Relevance: Ensures media and storage used for data must be sanitized when decommissioned, applicable to backups and storage devices.

Integration Tips: Define sanitization procedures for storage media and backups and ensure they are applied before repurposing or disposal.

Verification Method: Review sanitization process records and test decommissioning procedures.

Priority: High

SC-13

Requirement: Protect cryptographic keys and use cryptography to protect data in transit and at rest.

Relevance: Applies to protecting stored data via encryption-at-rest and managing keys across lifecycle operations.

Integration Tips: Use KMS for key lifecycle, encrypt sensitive storage volumes and file objects, and rotate keys according to policy.

Verification Method: Audit encryption deployment and key management processes, and verify keys are rotated and access is restricted.

Priority: Critical

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.12.3.1

Requirement: Backup copies of information, software and system images should be taken and tested regularly to ensure availability.

Relevance: Mandates proper backup and restore processes for stored content, users, files, and logs to ensure availability and recoverability.

Integration Tips: Implement encrypted backups, test restores regularly, and ensure backups follow retention and access controls.

Verification Method: Inspect backup schedules, encryption controls, and perform restore testing.

Priority: High

6.2.23. REQ-023: Operational security features: MFA, encryption-at-rest/in-transit, backups

OWASP ASVS Controls

V2.3

Requirement: Verify that MFA is available and enforced for high-value accounts and administrative functions.

Relevance: Directly requires MFA for admin and sensitive user accounts to strengthen operational security.

Integration Tips: Enforce MFA for administrative and high-risk operations, support hardware tokens and authenticator apps, and handle fallback securely.

Verification Method: Verify MFA enrollment, enforcement on high-value actions, and attempt bypass scenarios.

Level: L2 | Priority: Critical

NIST SP 800-53 Controls

IA-2

Requirement: Identify and authenticate users and devices before allowing access to organizational systems.

Relevance: Reinforces authentication controls including MFA and secure device identification for operational access.

Integration Tips: Leverage strong authentication mechanisms, device posture checks where needed, and enforce contextual access controls.

Verification Method: Assess authentication flows including MFA and device checks in various operational scenarios.

Priority: Critical

SC-12

Requirement: Protect the confidentiality and integrity of information at rest and in transit using cryptographic mechanisms.

Relevance: Specifies encryption requirements for protecting data in transit and at rest, aligning with the requirement.

Integration Tips: Use TLS 1.2+/strong cipher suites for transport and strong disk/object encryption for rest; manage keys via KMS.

Verification Method: Scan for TLS configuration, inspect encryption-at-rest configurations and key management practices.

Priority: Critical

ISO 27001:2022 Controls

A.12.3.1

Requirement: Backup copies of information, software and system images should be taken and tested regularly to ensure availability.

Relevance: Mandates backup and testing processes, directly relevant to operational resilience and recovery.

Integration Tips: Implement encrypted, versioned backups, test restores, and document backup retention and access controls.

Verification Method: Review backup logs, test restores, and validate encryption and access controls on backup storage.

Priority: High

6.3. Cross-Functional Security Controls

The following controls apply globally across all system components:

Logging and Monitoring

Description: Centralized capture and protection of audit events, system actions, agent executions, and security-relevant events to enable detection, response, and forensics.

Applies to: All requirements involving user actions, Agent operations, Content lifecycle, Exports and connectors, Notifications

Implementation Guidance: Centralize logs to an immutable store or append-only service, protect access via IAM, implement integrity checks (hashing) and SIEM-based alerting. Define event schemas covering authorization attempts, state changes, agent executions, exports, and admin actions.

Encryption (in-transit and at-rest)

Description: Use cryptographic protections to preserve confidentiality and integrity of data across storage, transit, and connectors.

Applies to: User credentials, Content and media storage, APIs and connectors, Backups and exports

Implementation Guidance: Enforce TLS for all network communication, encrypt sensitive storage with strong algorithms and KMS-managed keys, rotate keys, and employ envelope encryption for highly sensitive objects.

Authorization and Access Control (RBAC/tenant-aware)

Description: Centralized authorization model enforcing least privilege, role segregation, and tenant-aware scoping to prevent privilege escalation and cross-tenant leakage.

Applies to: Workspace management, Content operations, APIs and connectors, Analytics and dashboards

Implementation Guidance: Implement a centralized policy enforcement point (PEP), include tenant context in all access checks, maintain role matrices and automated access reviews, and log all authorization decisions.

Input Validation and Output Encoding

Description: Sanitize and encode user-provided content to prevent XSS, injection, and other content-based attacks across channels.

Applies to: Comments, Post content, Channel formatting, File uploads metadata

Implementation Guidance: Apply whitelist-based sanitization, contextual output encoding for each channel, validate metadata inputs, and scan for embedded scripts or malicious payloads in uploads.

Secrets and Credential Management

Description: Secure storage, rotation, and limited-scope use of API keys, tokens, and credentials used by connectors, agents, and system components.

Applies to: Third-party integrations, Agent execution contexts, Internal service-to-service auth

Implementation Guidance: Use a secrets manager/KMS for all credentials, implement automated rotation and short-lived tokens, and restrict secret access via IAM policies and audit secret access.

6.4. Requirements Traceability Overview

This section demonstrates complete traceability from high-level requirements through threats to security controls and verification methods.

Coverage Summary: Traceability matrix contains 23 requirements. 23 requirements (100.0%) linked to threats. 19 requirements (82.6%) mapped to security controls (OWASP ASVS, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001). Coverage: Partial.

Sample Traceability Mappings

The following table shows traceability for high-priority requirements:

Req ID	Requirement	Threats	Security Controls	Standards	Priority	Verification
REQ-001	User registration and login with role-ba…	10 threats	4 controls	ISO27001, NIST, OWASP	Critical	Test session handling, token revocation, and behavior during role changes; review cookie flags and session expiration policies.
REQ-002	User profile management and role/agent a…	10 threats	4 controls	ISO27001, NIST, OWASP	Critical	Test session handling, token revocation, and behavior during role changes; review cookie flags and session expiration policies.
REQ-003	Channel workspace creation and multi-ten…	7 threats	4 controls	ISO27001, NIST, OWASP	Critical	Review network policies, architecture diagrams, and enforcement logs; perform architecture review for tenant protection.
REQ-004	Create, edit, delete, and version blog p…	5 threats	4 controls	ISO27001, NIST, OWASP	Critical	Review logs for content events and verify log integrity and retention policy adherence.
REQ-007	Tagging, categorization, and searchable …	8 threats	3 controls	ISO27001, NIST, OWASP	Critical	Review asset handling policy and check that storage and metadata handling align with classified requirements.
REQ-008	Attach files to posts with virus scannin…	6 threats	3 controls	ISO27001, NIST, OWASP	Critical	Review asset handling policy and check that storage and metadata handling align with classified requirements.
REQ-009	Threaded comments, @mentions, and permis…	4 threats	4 controls	ISO27001, NIST, OWASP	Critical	Confirm scanning is scheduled, check detection logs, and validate remediation workflows exist.
REQ-010	Real-time collaborative editing and stat…	2 threats	4 controls	ISO27001, NIST, OWASP	Critical	Review runbooks and procedure tests; ensure on-call teams can follow documented steps.
REQ-012	Prolog-driven agent integration for cont…	10 threats	3 controls	ISO27001, NIST, OWASP	Critical	Review agent behavior rules, simulate agent actions, and verify audit logging and human override capabilities.
REQ-014	Rule-based workflow coordination with ap…	5 threats	3 controls	ISO27001, NIST, OWASP	Critical	Review capacity plans and monitoring metrics under typical and peak loads.

Showing 10 of 23 requirements. See Appendix D for complete traceability matrix.

Traceability Statistics

• Total Requirements Tracked: 23
• Requirements Linked to Threats: 23 (100.0%)
• Requirements Mapped to Controls: 19 (82.6%)
• Average Controls per Requirement: 2.8
• Control Distribution by Standard:
  • OWASP ASVS: 23 controls
  • NIST SP 800-53: 22 controls
  • ISO 27001: 19 controls
• Verification Coverage: 100% (all requirements have verification methods)

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7. AI/ML Security Requirements

This section addresses security requirements specific to artificial intelligence and machine learning components within the system. AI/ML systems introduce unique security challenges including prompt injection attacks, data poisoning, model theft, adversarial inputs, and bias vulnerabilities. This analysis identifies AI/ML components, assesses their security risks, and prescribes specialized controls to protect both the AI systems themselves and the data they process.

7.1. AI/ML Components Detected

This section identifies all AI/ML components within the system that require specialized security controls.
1. Prolog-driven Agent Integration: Automates publishing and moderation processes, leveraging rule-based workflows and continuous content management.
2. Automated Topic Suggestion and Content Enrichment: AI-based feature that suggests topics and enriches content for blog posts using machine learning algorithms.
3. Real-time Collaborative Editing and Updating: Uses natural language processing to facilitate real-time updates on posts by both human users and agents.

7.2. AI/ML Threat Model

Component	Identified Threats
Prolog-driven Agent Integration	- Prompt injection attacks - Model poisoning - Adversarial inputs
Automated Topic Suggestion and Content Enrichment	- Data leakage (sensitive information in training data) - Bias and fairness issues - Output filtering risks
Real-time Collaborative Editing and Updating	- Input validation issues - Monitoring for adversarial inputs - Race conditions in collaborative updates

7.3. AI/ML Security Controls

Prolog-driven Agent Integration

Prompt Injection Prevention: Implement strict validation rules for inputs given to the agent to prevent injection attacks.
Input Validation for AI Inputs: Validate and sanitize input data before processing to ensure it meets expected formats and types.
Output Filtering and Sanitization: Ensure outputs from the agent are filtered for sensitive information and sanitized to prevent information leakage.

Automated Topic Suggestion and Content Enrichment

Data Leakage Prevention: Implement controls to ensure that sensitive PII is not included in training datasets or exposed through generated content.
Bias and Fairness Considerations: Regularly audit the training algorithms and datasets to identify and mitigate bias in suggestions and enrichments.
Model Access Controls: Ensure that only authorized personnel can access and modify the underlying models to prevent unauthorized changes.

Real-time Collaborative Editing and Updating

Rate Limiting and Abuse Prevention: Implement rate limiting on inputs to prevent abuse and denial of service via excessive requests.
Monitoring for Adversarial Inputs: Monitor input data for patterns indicative of adversarial attacks or attempts to exploit the system.
Model Versioning and Rollback Capabilities: Maintain version histories of the models used for real-time collaboration, allowing for quick rollback in case of detected issues.

7.4. Integration with Existing Security Controls

The AI/ML security controls complement existing security practices such as role-based access control (RBAC), encryption (both at rest and in transit), and operational security features like MFA. By integrating these controls, the application enhances its resilience against unique threats posed to AI components, ensuring a robust security posture while maintaining compliance with industry standards.

7.5. AI/ML Monitoring Requirements

Monitoring Area	Description
Input Validation Monitoring	Continuously monitor input data for anomalies that may indicate prompt injection or adversarial inputs.
Output Monitoring	Regularly review and log outputs generated by AI components for sensitive data leaks or unexpected behavior.
Model Performance Monitoring	Track the performance of AI models over time to identify any drift or degradation in accuracy, which may indicate potential manipulation.

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8. Compliance Requirements

This section identifies regulatory and legal compliance obligations applicable to the system based on data types, geographic scope, industry sector, and business operations. Compliance requirements drive specific security controls, data handling procedures, audit capabilities, and privacy protections. Non-compliance can result in significant legal penalties, reputational damage, and business disruption. This analysis maps applicable regulations to specific security requirements and operational procedures.

8.1. Applicable Regulations

The regulations applicable to the Omnichannel Prolog Agentic Blogging System were identified based on the data types processed, geographic scope, industry sector, and business operations. Given that the application will handle user management with personal data, content management with potential health-related information, and various integrations, multiple regulations apply. Compliance requirements directly impact security controls, data handling procedures, and operational processes, necessitating a structured approach to ensure adherence to legal obligations.

Regulation	Applicability Reason
GDPR	GDPR applies because the system processes personal data of EU residents, including user registration and profiles.
CCPA	CCPA applies due to the handling of personal data of California residents, providing rights over personal information.
HIPAA	HIPAA applies if the system processes health information, particularly if any health-related content is integrated.
PCI-DSS	PCI-DSS applies if payment card data is processed via integrations for any monetization features.
SOX	SOX applies if the application handles financial data, requiring audits and controls for data integrity.
COPPA	COPPA applies if the system collects data from children under 13 years of age, necessitating parental consent.
Data Residency Laws	Geographic restrictions apply based on user location and data storage and processing locations, affecting where data can be stored.

8.2. Compliance Controls by Regulation

GDPR

• Implement data encryption and pseudonymization to protect personal data.
  
• Establish a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) process for new features.
  
• Create a process for data subject access requests.
  
• Ensure explicit consent for data processing activities.

CCPA

• Develop a privacy policy that explains consumer rights and data usage.
  
• Implement a mechanism for users to opt-out of data selling.
  
• Create a system for responding to consumer requests regarding personal data.

HIPAA

• Apply encryption to health-related information stored or transmitted.
  
• Conduct regular risk assessments on health data handling.
  
• Ensure that any third-party service providers comply with HIPAA regulations.

PCI-DSS

• Ensure secure transmission of payment information (encryption).
  
• Regularly scan and monitor the network for vulnerabilities.
  
• Implement strong access control measures for payment data.

SOX

• Maintain accurate financial records and reports.
  
• Implement internal controls over financial reporting.
  
• Conduct regular audits to ensure compliance.

COPPA

• Obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting data from children.
  
• Provide a clear privacy policy detailing data collection practices for children.

Data Residency Laws

• Identify data storage locations compliant with applicable local laws.
  
• Implement controls to prevent unauthorized data transfers outside designated regions.

8.3. Data Subject Rights

Right	Description
Right to Access	Users can request access to their personal data stored in the system.
Right to Rectification	Users can request corrections to inaccurate personal data.
Right to Erasure	Users can request deletion of their personal data under certain conditions.
Right to Restrict Processing	Users can request the limitation of processing of their personal data.
Right to Data Portability	Users can request their data in a structured, commonly used format.

8.4. Privacy Requirements

Consent: Users must provide explicit consent before their data is processed.
Privacy Notice: A clear privacy notice must be provided to users detailing data collection, usage, and rights.
Data Minimization: Only collect personal data that is necessary for the specified purposes.

8.5. Audit and Monitoring Requirements

Logging: Maintain detailed logs of user activities and data access for auditing purposes.
Monitoring: Regularly monitor for compliance with data protection policies and regulations.
Incident Response: Establish a response plan for data breaches with defined roles and responsibilities.

8.6. Data Handling Rules

Retention: Personal data should only be retained for as long as necessary to fulfill its purpose.
Deletion: Implement automatic deletion procedures for data that is no longer required.
Access Control: Limit access to personal data based on user roles and responsibilities.

8.7. Compliance Risk Assessment

The compliance risk assessment identifies potential risks associated with regulatory compliance in the context of the application. It is crucial to monitor and mitigate these risks to protect user data and maintain compliance with applicable regulations.

Key Compliance Risks:

• Risk of unauthorized access to personal data due to inadequate access controls.
  
• Risk of non-compliance with GDPR and CCPA due to failure to manage user consent and data subject rights.
  
• Risk of data breaches resulting from third-party integrations that may not adhere to required security standards.

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9. Security Architecture Recommendations

This section provides comprehensive security architecture guidance that integrates security controls into the system’s technical design. Security architecture defines how security principles, controls, and patterns are applied across system components to create a cohesive, defense-in-depth security posture. The recommendations address architectural principles, component-level controls, data protection strategies, and third-party integration security to ensure security is built into the system design.

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9.1. Architectural Security Principles

Architectural security principles provide the foundational philosophy guiding all security design decisions. These principles ensure a consistent security posture across all system components and guide the selection and implementation of security controls. They inform trade-offs between usability, scalability, and risk mitigation so the platform remains resilient, auditable, and compliant.

• Zero Trust Architecture principles: Never trust, always verify — every request (user, agent, service) must be authenticated and authorized, regardless of network location. This reduces risk from lateral movement and compromised network perimeters.
• Defense in Depth: Multiple, layered defenses (network, host, service, application, data) protect against single-point failures; if one control is bypassed, others still defend the system.
• Principle of Least Privilege: Grant users, agents, and services only the minimum access and capabilities required to perform tasks; reduces blast radius when credentials or components are compromised.
• Secure by Default / Secure by Design: Default configurations favor security (e.g., deny-by-default network policies, secure cookie flags, strict CORS) so that secure operation requires minimal post-deployment configuration.
• Separation of Duties: Split responsibilities (e.g., content publishing vs. approval vs. connector credential management) to reduce fraud or accidental misuse and require multi-party approvals for high-impact actions.
• Fail-Secure: Systems should fail to a secure state (e.g., locked down or read-only) rather than an open or permissive state on error or degraded operation.
• Complete Mediation: Every access attempt must be checked at a centralized Policy Enforcement Point with up-to-date policy and tenant context — do not rely on client-side checks alone.
• Defense-in-Depth for Automation (Agent Safety): Automated agents require additional constraints: limits on actions, auditable trails, rollback mechanisms, and explicit human override channels.
• Privacy-by-Design: Embed data minimization, pseudonymization/anonymization, and consent management into data flows, especially for analytics and machine-assisted features.
• Secure DevOps / Continuous Security: Integrate SCA, SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, infrastructure-as-code checks, and automated security testing into CI/CD pipelines to catch issues early.

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9.2. Component-Level Security Controls

Frontend User Interface

Required Controls:

• Content Security Policy (CSP) with strict directives and nonces to mitigate XSS.
• Subresource Integrity (SRI) for third-party JS/CSS.
• Store auth tokens in secure HttpOnly, SameSite cookies (avoid localStorage for long-lived tokens).
• Input validation and contextual output encoding client- and server-side.
• CSRF protections for state-changing operations.
• Rate limiting and anti-abuse client-side heuristics (complement server-side).
• Telemetry privacy controls (PII redaction) and opt-out for UI telemetry.
• Secure error handling and masking of sensitive error details.

Recommended Patterns:

• Use a CDN (CloudFront/Akamai) for static assets with strict caching and origin access identity.
• Single Page App with server-driven session state and token rotation endpoints.
• Progressive Enhancement and Content Sanitization libraries (whitelist-based sanitizer).
• Feature flags for progressive rollout and safe feature kill-switches.

Edge Layer (CDN & API Gateway)

Required Controls:

• TLS termination using TLS 1.3 (TLS 1.2 minimum) and strong cipher suites.
• Web Application Firewall (WAF) with OWASP rules and custom rules for business logic anomalies.
• DDoS protection and global rate limiting.
• JWT/OAuth token validation and early rejection at the edge.
• IP reputation checks, geo-restriction, and suspicious traffic heuristics.
• Centralized access logs forwarding to SIEM in real-time.

Recommended Patterns:

• API Gateway with OAuth2/JWT validation and OpenID Connect integration.
• Edge rate-limiting policies per tenant and per API key.
• Origin protection (signed headers or mutual TLS) to prevent origin spoofing.
• Use CDN edge functions to enforce CSP headers, redirect HTTP->HTTPS, and perform authentication prechecks.

Application Services (Auth/Core API, Workflow Engine, Prolog Agent Engine, Notification Service, Workers/Queue, Channel Connectors)

Required Controls:

• Centralized authentication and authorization (PEP + PDP) with RBAC/ABAC, tenant-aware checks, and token scope verification.
• Service-to-service authentication using mTLS or short-lived signed tokens (e.g., AWS STS, JWT signed by KMS).
• Input validation and output encoding for all endpoints (business logic layer).
• Prolog/agent execution sandboxing with resource limits, restrict network and filesystem access, and capability-limited agent identities.
• Audit logging for all critical operations (state changes, publish actions, agent decisions) with immutable append-only storage.
• Rate limiting, circuit breakers, backoff and retry logic for outbound connectors.
• Secrets retrieval from Secrets Manager/KMS, not env vars or code; secrets access logged and IAM-restricted.
• Change control and signed rule deployments for workflows and agent rule books.

Recommended Patterns:

• Microservices behind API Gateway with clear bounded contexts and fine-grained service accounts.
• Central Policy Decision Point (PDP) using OPA or similar for runtime authorization.
• Workflow engine using versioned rule sets and supervised job queues (idempotent job design).
• Agent engine runs in containers with strict pod security policies and seccomp, with sidecar for logging and telemetry injection.
• Message queue (SQS/RabbitMQ/Kafka) for durable, tamper-resistant job/notification transfer.

Data Storage (Relational DB, Object Store, Append-only Audit Log, Analytics/Search)

Required Controls:

• Tenant-aware data partitioning (row-level tenant_id) and DB-enforced tenant filters.
• Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for DB plus column-level encryption for PII.
• Object storage encryption at rest and signed short-lived URLs for download access.
• Append-only WORM or immutable buckets for audit logs; integrity hashing for log entries.
• Backups encrypted and isolated from primary keys; key separation for backups.
• Fine-grained IAM and VPC endpoint controls for DB and object storage access.

Recommended Patterns:

• Encrypted RDS/Postgres with TDE + column-encryption via KMS envelope encryption.
• S3-compatible object store with server-side encryption (SSE-KMS) and object lock for immutable audit logs.
• Search/analytics pipelines ingest event streams via controlled connectors and pseudonymize PII before indexing.
• Use DB row-level security (RLS) for tenant enforcement in addition to application checks.

External Integrations (Identity Providers, Email, Social Platforms, AV/Scanning)

Required Controls:

• OAuth2/OIDC for delegated access where supported; scopes limited to least privilege.
• Credentials stored only in Secrets Manager with rotation and access logging.
• Webhook signature verification (HMAC, JWT) and replay protection.
• mTLS and IP whitelisting for high-trust partners.
• Connector-specific rate limiting and retry/backoff to protect external services and avoid abuse.

Recommended Patterns:

• Connector adapter layer that normalizes auth and retries, centralizes rate limiting and logging.
• Signed webhook endpoints with rotating secret keys provisioned per partner.
• Proxy publishing through service accounts with constrained scopes and per-tenant credentials when required.

Infrastructure & Security Services (KMS/Secrets Manager, IAM, Monitoring, Backups, DR)

Required Controls:

• KMS-backed key management with CMK rotation, access policies, and HSM-backed keys for master keys.
• Centralized IAM with least privilege, role separation, and MFA enforced for all admin and operator roles.
• Centralized logging to SIEM (Splunk/Datadog) with alerts, retention, and log integrity checks.
• Automated vulnerability scanning, patch management, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scanning.
• Backup orchestration with encrypted snapshots and periodic restore testing.

Recommended Patterns:

• Use managed KMS/HSM for root keys and envelope encryption for data keys.
• IAM roles for services with short-lived STS tokens; no long-lived credentials for services.
• Dedicated logging/monitoring account with read-only roles for security analysts.
• Immutable infrastructure and blue/green deploys for safe rollbacks.

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9.3. Data Protection Strategy

Data Classification: Public, Internal, Confidential, Restricted

• Public: Content deliberately published to web/social channels (public blog posts), anonymized analytics aggregates.
• Internal: Application telemetry, non-sensitive activity feeds, operational metrics.
• Confidential: User profiles (email, full name), unpublished posts, attachments not containing highly sensitive content, agent execution metadata.
• Restricted: PII subject to regulatory protection (SSNs, health data), credentials, API keys, legal records, payment data if present, private attachments with sensitive personal information.

Encryption Requirements:

• Data-in-transit:
  • TLS 1.3 (preferred). TLS 1.2 with modern cipher suites (AEAD) as minimum.
  • Enforce HSTS, secure cookies, and TLS mutual authentication for service-to-service in critical channels.
• Data-at-rest:
  • Use AES-256-GCM for object and DB storage encryption.
  • Employ envelope encryption: data keys AES-256 (DEKs) encrypted by KMS-managed CMKs (RSA-3072 or ECDSA P-384 keys for key wrapping where supported by KMS/HSM).
  • Use HMAC-SHA-256 for integrity checks and SHA-2 family for hashing.
• Key management:
  • Store and manage keys in HSM-backed KMS; separate CMKs for production/test and per-tenant keying for highly sensitive tenants.
  • Key rotation: DEKs rotated per object lifecycle (e.g., annually or on policy) and CMKs rotated per organization policy (e.g., annually), with emergency rotation procedures.
  • Enforce strict access policies and audit all key usage.

Retention Policies:

• Audit logs (security/audit): Hot retention 1 year, archived immutable retention 7 years (or per compliance).
• Agent execution logs: Retain 1 year searchable, archive 5–7 years depending on compliance and legal obligations.
• Unpublished drafts and workspace content: Default tenant-controlled; recommended retention 7 years default for enterprise customers, configurable by tenant.
• Attachments/media: Default storage retention aligned with post retention; garbage-collect orphaned objects after configurable grace period (e.g., 30 days) unless retained for legal hold.
• Backups: Retain nightly backups for 90 days; weekly snapshots archived for up to 7 years per compliance needs.
• Exported reports: Retain per request basis (e.g., 30 days) then require reauthorization for access or deletion.

Handling Procedures:

• Data access:
  • Enforce RBAC with tenant context and PEP checks for each read/write operation.
  • Log and alert on anomalous access patterns and bulk exports.
• Data transmission:
  • Use TLS for all network transfers, signed payloads for critical messages, and encrypted attachments for sensitive channels.
  • Use signed short-lived URLs (pre-signed S3) for object downloads; validate token on access.
• Data storage:
  • Store PII in encrypted fields/column-level encryption; minimize PII in analytics by pseudonymization.
  • Implement DLP checks on export pipelines and reports; mask or redact PII by default in exports.
• Data deletion:
  • Implement GDPR/CCPA processes: soft-delete (mark), then physical deletion after retention or upon verified erasure requests.
  • Preserve transactional and audit metadata required by law but pseudonymize or redact PII where possible in retained records.
  • For object storage with versioning, ensure lifecycle rules handle object lock and immutability; provide secure wipe where required.
• Upload handling:
  • All uploads scanned synchronously/asynchronously by AV/AML engines; quarantine and notify on positive detections.
  • Validate file types, impose size limits, and strip/normalize metadata containing PII where applicable.
• Data minimization and provenance:
  • Agents must document provenance for suggestions/enrichments and avoid storing extraneous PII in ML inputs; consent must be recorded and honored.

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9.4. Third-Party Integration Security

Identity Providers (OIDC/SAML: Google, Okta, Azure AD, etc.)

Security Requirements:

• Use OIDC/OAuth2 or SAML with signed assertions and verified metadata.
• Support SCIM for provisioning/deprovisioning and automated lifecycle management.
• Enforce MFA and adaptive auth for admin/privileged accounts.
• Map group/role claims to internal RBAC and include tenant context.

Risk Assessment: High - A compromised identity provider or misconfiguration can grant broad access; integration must be robust and monitored.

Recommended Controls:

• Use signed tokens and verify signed keys via JWKS endpoints.
• Enforce short token lifetimes and refresh token rotation.
• Implement SCIM with role mapping and automated deprovisioning.
• Monitor SSO logs and alert on suspicious sign-ins (impossible travel, repeated failures).

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Email Providers (SES, SendGrid, Mailgun)

Security Requirements:

• Use API keys stored in Secrets Manager; do not embed in code.
• Authenticate outbound emails with DKIM, SPF, and DMARC.
• Use TLS for SMTP or HTTPS APIs.
• Enforce rate limits and sending quotas; validate email content for PHI/PII leakage.

Risk Assessment: Medium to High — Email sends can be abused for phishing and leakage; misconfiguration risks API key compromise.

Recommended Controls:

• Store API keys in KMS/Secrets Manager and rotate regularly.
• Sign all outbound messages (DKIM), configure SPF, and enforce DMARC policies.
• Monitor sending patterns and alert on volumetric anomalies.
• Require verification and approval for mass digests; sandbox external templates.

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Social Platform APIs (Twitter/X, Facebook/Meta, LinkedIn)

Security Requirements:

• Use OAuth2 with scoped tokens and limited scopes per connector.
• Implement token rotation and per-tenant connector credentials when possible.
• Validate callback/webhook signatures and use HMAC/JWT verification.

Risk Assessment: Medium — Publishing can cause reputational damage, accidental leaks, or abuse if agents publish undesired content.

Recommended Controls:

• Limit agent and user publish scopes; require approval flows for scheduled high-impact posts.
• Implement per-channel transformation/sanitization pipeline to prevent injection.
• Use connector-level rate limiting and circuit breakers to prevent mass posting due to agent bugs.
• Log and retain publishing receipts and statuses for non-repudiation.

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Antivirus / ML File Scanning Vendors (VirusTotal, vendor AV services, ClamAV, ML sandbox)

Security Requirements:

• Integrate scanning in upload pipeline with signed results and confidence metadata.
• Send minimal necessary file metadata to third party; anonymize user identifiers where possible.
• Ensure scanning leverages secure channels (HTTPS/TLS) and has authenticated API keys.

Risk Assessment: Medium — Outsourced scanning improves detection but exposes file metadata and could result in data leakage if PII is shared.

Recommended Controls:

• Quarantine suspect files and require human review when detection triggers occur.
• Use on-premise or private scanning where PII risk is high.
• Log scanning results and correlate with uploads for incident analysis.
• Apply rate limiting and retry logic for scanning calls; cache scan fingerprints to avoid resending identical files.

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CDN Providers (CloudFront, Akamai)

Security Requirements:

• TLS termination with modern ciphers and HSTS.
• TLS mutual auth for origin-to-CDN where supported.
• Origin access control to prevent direct object access bypassing CDN.

Risk Assessment: Low to Medium — Misconfiguration can expose content or allow cache poisoning; but providers are generally robust.

Recommended Controls:

• Enforce origin access identity and signed URLs for private content.
• Enable WAF features and custom rules for app-specific patterns.
• Centralized logging (edge logs) ingested to SIEM.

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Object Storage Providers (S3-compatible)

Security Requirements:

• Server-side encryption (SSE-KMS) for all buckets holding Confidential/Restricted data.
• Bucket policies enforcing VPC endpoints and IAM restrictions.
• Enable versioning and object lock for audit logs; lifecycle policies for retention and deletion.

Risk Assessment: High — Misconfigured buckets are a common breach vector exposing attachments and backups.

Recommended Controls:

• Block public access by default, require explicit allow policies.
• Use pre-signed URLs for restricted downloads with short expiry.
• Audit bucket policies and enable access logging; encrypt backups with separate CMKs.

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Analytics/Search (Elasticsearch, Snowflake, Redshift)

Security Requirements:

• Ingested data must be pseudonymized for analytics; PII minimized or tokenized.
• TLS encryption for ingestion and query channels.
• Role-based access controls for analytics dashboards and exports.

Risk Assessment: Medium to High — Aggregated data may contain sensitive info and indexing can amplify exposure.

Recommended Controls:

• Use data pipelines that strip PII before indexing, apply field-level encryption for sensitive fields.
• Enforce strong access controls and monitor query patterns for exfiltration.
• Audit and control data export capabilities; require approval and DLP scanning.

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Monitoring/SIEM (Datadog, Splunk)

Security Requirements:

• Logs must be forwarded over TLS and stored in append-only protected stores.
• Access to SIEM must be tightly controlled and audited.
• Sensitive fields in logs must be redacted or tokenized.

Risk Assessment: High — SIEM contains sensitive operational data and must be protected to prevent attacker reconnaissance.

Recommended Controls:

• Enforce RBAC, MFA, and SSO for SIEM consoles.
• Use log forwarding agents with integrity checks and sign logs if possible.
• Monitor for anomalous queries against logs and alert on suspicious activity.

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Webhook Consumers / External Callbacks (Third-party communication services)

Security Requirements:

• Validate webhook payloads using signatures (HMAC, JWT).
• Implement replay protection (nonces, timestamps).
• Use HTTPS and IP allowlists where possible.

Risk Assessment: Medium — Unverified callbacks can be used to inject false state or spoof events.

Recommended Controls:

• Require webhook verification secrets stored in Secrets Manager.
• Rate-limit processing of webhooks and quarantine suspicious payloads.
• Log webhook events and correlate with downstream actions for auditing.

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How These Elements Work Together (Holistic View)

• Centralized Identity & Authorization: SSO + OIDC + PDP (OPA) enforces tenant-aware RBAC and ABAC across all APIs, frontend, agent engine, and analytics to achieve complete mediation.
• Secure Service Mesh/Network: mTLS, service accounts, and network segmentation enforce zero trust for all service-to-service traffic; API Gateway and edge enforce perimeter security and simple DoS mitigation.
• Data Protection End-to-End: TLS in transit + envelope encryption for data-at-rest + KMS-managed keys ensure confidentiality; DLP, pseudonymization, and strict export controls reduce risk of accidental leakage.
• Agent Safety and Auditability: Agent runtimes are sandboxed, logged in append-only stores, and their actions require signed rule sets and human approval gates for publish-or-delete operations. Rollback and incident response runbooks allow rapid reversal.
• Monitoring and Response: Centralized logs and SIEM with baseline detection, anomaly detection for agent behavior, and automatic alerting provide rapid detection and investigation capabilities.
• Secure Integrations: Connector adapter layer centralizes credential management, rate limiting, retries, and verification of external events (webhooks), reducing the integration attack surface.
• Secure DevOps: IaC scanning, signed artifacts, automated security tests and canary deployments reduce risk of introducing vulnerabilities; runtime protection and continuous scanning detect drift.

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Appendix: Operational Recommendations (brief)

• Enforce MFA for all admin and privileged roles; consider hardware-backed tokens for highest privilege.
• Maintain documented runbooks for agent anomalies (freeze, quarantine, revert) and test them in tabletop exercises.
• Conduct regular penetration tests, red-team exercises focused on agent misuse, and tenant isolation tests.
• Maintain a privacy impact assessment (PIA) and data flow maps; conduct DPIAs where regulated data is processed.
• Perform periodic access reviews and rotate credentials/keys; enforce just-in-time elevation for sensitive admin actions.
• Provide tenants with configuration options for retention and export policies, and with audit reports on agent actions and data access.

This document provides a comprehensive security architecture blueprint for the omnichannel Prolog agentic blogging platform that balances functionality, security, and compliance. Implementing these principles and controls will significantly reduce the platform’s attack surface, limit the blast radius of compromises, and enable rapid detection and response.

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10. Implementation Roadmap

This section provides a prioritized, phased approach for implementing the security controls identified throughout this analysis. The roadmap organizes security measures into logical phases based on risk, dependencies, and resource availability, ensuring critical security gaps are addressed first while building a foundation for comprehensive security coverage.

10.1. Prioritization Framework

Prioritization is critical for effective security implementation because it helps organize security efforts in a logical sequence that addresses the most significant risks first, ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, and maximizes the use of available resources. This structured approach ensures that critical vulnerabilities and compliance blockers are addressed immediately, while strategically planning for longer-term security enhancements.

Prioritization Criteria:

• Risk Level: Controls addressing critical and high-risk threats (identified through threat modeling) are prioritized first

• Compliance Deadlines: Regulatory requirements and compliance deadlines influence immediate priority

• Technical Complexity: Controls requiring foundational infrastructure are implemented early to enable subsequent controls

• Dependencies: Controls that other security measures depend upon are prioritized accordingly

• Resource Availability: Implementation considers the availability of skilled personnel, tools, and budget

• Business Impact: Controls protecting business-critical functions and data receive higher priority

These criteria work together to create a logical implementation sequence that balances security needs with practical constraints, ensuring that the most significant risks are mitigated promptly while setting the stage for future improvements.

10.2. Phased Implementation Plan

Phase: IMMEDIATE

Timeline: 0-1 months
Rationale: Immediate focus on critical vulnerabilities and compliance blockers ensures the protection of sensitive data and essential authentication mechanisms.
Controls to Implement:

• Implement strong authentication and password policies, including password hashing (bcrypt/argon2)

• Enforce basic encryption for sensitive data at rest and in transit

• Deploy multi-factor authentication (MFA) for high-value accounts and administrative functions

• Address compliance blockers, such as explicit consent mechanisms under GDPR

Dependencies:

• None

Phase: SHORT-TERM

Timeline: 1-3 months
Rationale: These controls build upon immediate security measures, focusing on improving access control adjustments and ensuring that logging and API security mitigate identified threats effectively.
Controls to Implement:

• Enhance user authentication through comprehensive multi-factor authentication

• Deploy role-based access controls across the admin dashboard

• Implement comprehensive logging and monitoring for all administrative actions

• Strengthen API security with input validation and HTTPS protocols

• Begin encryption for all sensitive data at rest

Dependencies:

• Completion of TLS Implementation

• Completion of multi-factor authentication

Phase: MEDIUM-TERM

Timeline: 3-6 months
Rationale: Focus on implementing advanced threat detection, security testing, and third-party security audits to strengthen the security posture.
Controls to Implement:

• Deploy advanced threat detection systems for real-time monitoring

• Automate security testing for continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines

• Conduct third-party security audits for compliance and risk assessment

• Enhance data protection mechanisms including advanced encryption techniques

Dependencies:

• Completion of comprehensive logging and monitoring

Phase: LONG-TERM

Timeline: 6-12 months
Rationale: Strategic initiatives to enhance security maturity and integrate AI/ML for security controls, along with comprehensive testing and awareness programs.
Controls to Implement:

• Develop and implement security maturity enhancements

• Integrate advanced AI/ML-based security controls for anomaly detection

• Conduct comprehensive penetration testing across all systems

• Launch security awareness and training programs for staff

Dependencies:

• Completion of advanced threat detection systems

Phase: ONGOING

Timeline: Continuous
Rationale: Continuous efforts to maintain and improve security posture, ensuring systems are resilient and compliant over time.
Controls to Implement:

• Conduct regular security monitoring and patch management

• Perform compliance audits to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements

• Maintain incident response readiness with regular drills and updates

Dependencies:

• None

10.3. Resource Requirements

Skills: Security engineers, Security architects, Web developers, Compliance specialists

Recommended tools: SIEM solutions for logging and monitoring, Vulnerability scanners for testing, Encryption libraries for data protection, API management tools for secure interfaces

Estimated time effort: Approximately 3-6 months for initial phases, with ongoing efforts extending resources as per system complexity and requirements.

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11. Verification and Testing Strategy

11.1. Testing Approach

Integrate security testing throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with an emphasis on continuous security practices. Balance automated scanning with manual evaluations to prioritize high-risk areas based on business impact, adhering to shift-left security principles by incorporating security testing earlier and continuously. This approach ensures that security vulnerabilities are identified and addressed as early as possible, promoting a culture of security awareness among developers and stakeholders.

11.2. Testing Methods

Method	Frequency	Tools
STATIC APPLICATION SECURITY TESTING (SAST)	Every commit/build	SonarQube, Semgrep, Checkmarx, CodeQL
DYNAMIC APPLICATION SECURITY TESTING (DAST)	Nightly/weekly	OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, Acunetix
DEPENDENCY SCANNING	Every build	Snyk, Dependabot, OWASP Dependency-Check
SECRETS SCANNING	Every commit	TruffleHog, GitLeaks, GitHub Secret Scanning
CONTAINER/INFRASTRUCTURE SCANNING	Every deployment	Trivy, Clair, Prowler, ScoutSuite
PENETRATION TESTING	Quarterly or before major releases	Custom scripts, Metasploit, Burp Suite Pro
SECURITY CODE REVIEW	For critical features	GitHub/GitLab code review, Security checklists
COMPLIANCE SCANNING	Continuous	AWS Config, Azure Policy, Cloud Custodian

11.3. Compliance Verification

Multi-standard compliance (OWASP ASVS, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001) will be verified through automated tools and manual checks against regulatory requirements such as GDPR, CCPA, and PCI-DSS. Audit preparation will involve ensuring documentation and evidence collection for external audits. Recommendations will include engaging third-party auditors for comprehensive evaluations. Regular reviews of compliance controls will be conducted to ensure adherence to legal obligations while maintaining an up-to-date understanding of the regulatory landscape.

11.4. Continuous Monitoring

Implement Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) for real-time monitoring, supported by Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) to identify and mitigate threats. All logs will be aggregated and analyzed for anomalies, with integration into incident response processes to ensure prompt action against security events. Continuous monitoring will include the evaluation of user behavior and system interactions to detect any deviations from expected patterns, enabling proactive security measures.

11.5. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Mean time to detect (MTTD) security issues
  
• Mean time to remediate (MTTR) vulnerabilities
  
• Percentage of critical vulnerabilities patched within SLA
  
• Security test coverage percentage
  
• False positive rate in automated scanning
  
• Compliance audit pass rate

11.6. Mapping of Testing Methods to Security Controls

Testing Method	Security Controls Verified
STATIC APPLICATION SECURITY TESTING (SAST)	Input validation, injection flaws, hardcoded secrets (OWASP V2.1, V2.2)
DYNAMIC APPLICATION SECURITY TESTING (DAST)	Authentication, authorization, XSS, CSRF, SQL injection (OWASP V2.1, V4.1)
DEPENDENCY SCANNING	Supply chain security (NIST AC-17)
SECRETS SCANNING	Cryptographic protection (OWASP V2.3)
CONTAINER/INFRASTRUCTURE SCANNING	Configuration management (NIST CM-8)
PENETRATION TESTING	All high-risk controls (OWASP V4.1, V2.2)
SECURITY CODE REVIEW	Authentication, authorization, crypto implementations (NIST IA-2)
COMPLIANCE SCANNING	All compliance-related controls (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, PCI-DSS)

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12. Validation Report

This section presents a comprehensive validation of the security requirements generated throughout this analysis. The validation evaluates the requirements against five key dimensions: completeness, consistency, correctness, implementability, and alignment with business objectives. This assessment ensures that the security requirements are comprehensive, technically sound, and actionable for implementation teams.

12.1. Overall Assessment

The overall validation score reflects the quality and completeness of the security requirements across five critical dimensions. Each dimension is scored from 0.0 to 1.0, with 1.0 representing excellent coverage and 0.0 indicating significant gaps.

Overall Score: 0.79/1.0

Validation Status: ❌ NEEDS IMPROVEMENT

The security requirements fall below the quality threshold and require improvement before implementation. Specific areas for enhancement are detailed in the sections below.

The validation assesses:

• Completeness: Are all identified security concerns adequately addressed?
• Consistency: Do requirements align with each other without contradictions?
• Correctness: Are controls appropriate for the identified risks and correctly applied?
• Implementability: Are requirements specific, actionable, and feasible to implement?
• Alignment: Do security requirements align with business requirements and objectives?

12.2. Dimension Scores

Dimension	Score	Status
Completeness	0.75	⚠️
Consistency	0.90	✅
Correctness	0.85	✅
Implementability	0.65	❌
Alignment	0.80	✅

Score Interpretation: - ✅ 0.8-1.0: Excellent - ⚠️ 0.7-0.79: Acceptable (minor improvements needed) - ❌ <0.7: Needs significant improvement

12.3. Detailed Feedback

Summary: The provided security controls and mappings are comprehensive and well-aligned to the business requirements, especially around RBAC, encryption, logging, tenant isolation, agent governance, and connectors. However, the artifacts are still too high-level in some areas and omit several important security domains and measurable acceptance criteria required for secure, auditable, and implementable delivery. The overall package is solid but requires targeted improvements to reach an acceptable implementation-ready posture.

Key gaps and required actions (specific, actionable): 1) Add explicit web security controls missing from the mapping - CSRF protections for state-changing endpoints (anti-CSRF tokens or SameSite cookie enforcement). Include verification steps and test cases. - HTTP security headers (CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options). Specify baseline CSP policy templates and acceptable exceptions. - Content Security Policy must be channel-aware for per-channel formatting outputs (provide example CSP for web channel, email-safe transforms). - Acceptance criteria: test cases proving CSRF token validation blocks forged requests; automated scanning for missing security headers reports 0 failures.

2. Make requirements implementable by adding measurable controls and responsibilities
   • For each high-level control, add owner, SLA/RTO/RPO where applicable (e.g., backups: daily with RTO 4 hours, RPO 1 hour; log retention: 365 days for audit logs, 90 days for debug logs unless regulated otherwise).
   • Specify cryptographic algorithms and key lifetime: TLS 1.2+/1.3, AEAD (AES-GCM or ChaCha20-Poly1305) for storage encryption, KMS-backed keys rotated every 12 months (or per policy). Provide acceptance tests to verify configuration.
   • Define MFA enforcement scope (which roles require mandatory MFA — Admins, Editors for publish approvals, Agent operational accounts) and fallback recovery process.
3. Strengthen AI/ML-specific governance and testing
   • Formal Model Governance: documented model owner, change control for model updates, CI/CD for models, signed model artifacts, and model version registry.
   • Adversarial/Poisoning defenses: input sanitization plus adversarial input detection; regularly run adversarial tests and record results.
   • Provenance and labeling: every agent-generated suggestion must include provenance metadata, confidence score, and an auditable trace linking model version and inputs.
   • Human-in-the-loop requirements: define which agent actions require human approval (e.g., publish-to-channel actions above a risk threshold) and programmatic gating controls.
   • Acceptance criteria: ability to rollback a model to previous signed version within 1 hour; agent suggestion logs include model_version/confidence/source for >99% of items.
4. Hardening of workflow engine and agent execution
   • Rule editing must be restricted to specific roles with approval workflow and immutable change logs; provide sample change approval flow.
   • Sandboxing of rule/Prolog evaluation and resource limits (CPU/memory/timeouts) for agent runs to prevent abuse or accidental resource exhaustion.
   • Rate-limits and capability boundaries for agents (max publishes/hour, per-channel quotas) with monitoring/alerting on threshold breaches.
   • Acceptance criteria: tests that demonstrate agent process is killed if runtime exceeds configured timeout and that privileged rule edits require two-person approval.
5. Operational and supply-chain security
   • Include dependency and supply-chain controls: SCA (software composition analysis), signed third-party artifacts, vulnerability scanning (SCA + SAST + DAST) integrated into CI/CD with blocking policy for critical/known-exploited libs.
   • Patch and vulnerability management cadence and ownership (e.g., critical vulnerabilities patched within 48hrs, high within 7 days). Provide verification via ticketing and audit reports.
6. Incident response, monitoring, and alerting detail
   • Define SIEM use-cases, alert thresholds, escalation matrix, and runbooks for agent misbehavior, data exfiltration attempts, and cross-tenant access detections.
   • Define forensic log retention, immutable storage controls (WORM), and automated integrity verification (hash checks) with scheduled audits.
   • Acceptance criteria: documented runbooks for agent compromise and tenant data leakage, and tabletop exercise evidence executed quarterly.
7. Data protection — privacy and compliance specifics
   • Concrete Data Subject Request (DSR) APIs and workflows: endpoints, verification requirements, timeline (e.g., respond within 30 days), and deletion semantics (logical delete vs purge and backups handling).
   • Data minimization and PII mapping: define which analytics fields are pseudonymized and which are persistent PII. Define anonymization techniques and acceptance tests demonstrating reidentification risk assessment.
   • Cross-border transfer controls and data residency enforcement, with automated blocking or routing to region-appropriate storage.
8. Exports, DLP and data egress
   • DLP policies applied to export flows; default masking rules for PII; export justification and approval workflow for mass exports.
   • Audit of export destinations and encryption of exported files, enforcement of allowed destination lists.
   • Acceptance criteria: automated test demonstrates exports containing PII are either masked or blocked unless proper justification and approval recorded.
9. Tenant isolation: concretize architecture choices
   • Document tenancy model (separate DB per tenant vs row-level tenant_id) and consequences for key/credential separation, encryption keys per tenant when required.
   • Add attacker test cases for tenant ID manipulation and cross-tenant queries. Enforce tenant ID propagation at middleware and DB layer.
   • Acceptance criteria: penetration test shows no cross-tenant data access; all DB queries include tenant scoping checks and are enforced by PEP or DB policies.
10. Real-time services resilience and DoS protections

• Architectural controls: API Gateway, WAF, circuit breakers, per-connection quotas, backpressure handling for websockets/real-time channels.
• Load and chaos testing acceptance criteria proving system maintains integrity under expected peak + 30% load without state divergence.

11. Make controls consistent and deduplicated

• Consolidate overlapping controls (e.g., several OWASP/NIST mappings referring to the same functional control) into a canonical control per capability with traceable references to standards.
• Produce a final traceability matrix mapping each business requirement to one canonical security control, responsible owner, acceptance criteria, and test cases.

Prioritized remediation plan (short-term vs medium-term): - Short-term (30 days): add CSRF, security headers, explicit MFA scope, clear owners for backup/log retention, basic agent gating (require manual approval for publishes), define DSR API stub. - Medium-term (60-90 days): implement model governance, provenance metadata, sandboxing and resource limits for agents, SCA in CI/CD, DLP for exports, and tenant-isolation tests. - Long-term (3-6 months): integrate SIEM runbooks, tabletop exercises, full incident response for AI/agent scenarios, advanced adversarial testing, per-tenant KMS and formal DPIA delivered.

Example acceptance criteria you can add to requirements to make them implementable (pick and apply across controls): - “All admin logins must use MFA; automated tests shall demonstrate that 100% of admin sessions require MFA.” - “Audit logs capturing create/edit/delete/post-status-change events must be retained in append-only storage for 365 days and be immutable; automated daily checks must verify log integrity (SHA-256).” - “Scheduled publishes require that the schedule record is signed by the scheduling service and stored in tamper-evident queue; tests must prove schedules cannot be altered by lower-privileged roles.” - “Agent publish actions with confidence < threshold (configurable) must be routed to a human review queue before external publication; unit/integration tests must verify gating.”

Conclusion: The current controls are a strong foundation and align reasonably well with the business requirements. To pass validation and be implementation-ready, convert high-level guidance into specific, measurable, tested requirements (owners, SLAs, acceptance tests), fill the listed domain gaps (web-specific controls, supply chain, CSRF/CSP, DSR implementations, model governance), and unify duplicate controls into a maintainable traceability matrix. After addressing the above action items the security posture will be robust and implementable.

12.4. Recommendations for Improvement

Based on the validation results, consider the following actions:

Priority Areas:

• Implementability (Score: 0.65): Provide more specific, actionable implementation guidance
• Completeness (Score: 0.75): Add missing security controls and expand coverage for all requirements

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Appendix A: Original Requirements Document

Omnichannel Prolog Agentic Blogging System Requirements

We need to build a web application for collaborative, agentic blogging across multiple channels.

Key Features:

1. User Management
   - User registration, login, and profiles
   - Agent and human role assignments (Admin, Editor, Contributor, Agent)
   - Channel workspace creation and management

2. Content Management
  - Create, edit, and delete blog posts
  - Assign posts to agents or users
  - Schedule and tag posts for multichannel publication
  - Add comments and attachments to posts
  - Track post status (Draft, In Review, Published)

3. Collaboration
  - Real-time post updates and status changes
  - Threaded comments on posts
  - @mention notifications for contributors and agents
  - Activity feed of recent system actions

4. Agent Integration
  - Prolog-driven continuous agent publishing and moderation
  - Automated topic suggestion and content enrichment
  - Rule-based workflow coordination between agents and users

5. Channel Management
  - Connect and manage multiple publishing channels (Web, Email, Social)
  - Unified dashboard for content performance per channel
  - Channel-specific formatting and scheduling

6. Notifications
  - Email and in-app notifications for mentions, assignments, and publishing events
  - Daily/weekly digest of channel/blog activity

7. Reporting
  - Dashboard with content and channel analytics
  - Agent and contributor productivity metrics
  - Export blog lists, agent actions, and analytics

The app will be web-based, storing user data, posts, files, agent logs, and supporting integrations with email, social media platforms, and third-party communication services.

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Appendix B: Glossary

Term	Definition
ASVS	Application Security Verification Standard (OWASP)
STRIDE	Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, Elevation of Privilege
SAST	Static Application Security Testing
DAST	Dynamic Application Security Testing
MFA	Multi-Factor Authentication
RBAC	Role-Based Access Control
PII	Personally Identifiable Information
PHI	Protected Health Information
GDPR	General Data Protection Regulation
HIPAA	Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
PCI-DSS	Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

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Appendix C: Complete Threat List

This appendix contains the complete list of all identified threats with full descriptions and mitigation strategies. Threats are organized by risk level for easy reference.

Critical Risk Threats

THR-001 - User Management (Auth/Core API)

• Category: Spoofing
• Likelihood: High | Impact: High
• Risk Level: Critical
• Description: Credential theft or reuse: attackers obtain user credentials (phished, leaked, or brute-forced) and authenticate as legitimate users to access the system. Agent accounts (machine identities) may be targeted to publish or moderate content.
• Mitigation Strategy: Enforce strong password policies, multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all human users and sensitive agent operations, adaptive/auth risk-based authentication, password hashing (bcrypt/argon2), monitoring for credential stuffing, implement rate limiting and account lockouts, protect service account keys with KMS and rotate regularly, log and alert anomalous logins.

THR-004 - Application Services (Auth/Core API)

• Category: Elevation of Privilege
• Likelihood: High | Impact: High
• Risk Level: Critical
• Description: Broken RBAC/ACLs allow a low-privileged user (Contributor) to perform admin/editor actions (delete other users’ posts, change channel connectors, rotate keys) due to missing or coarse-grained authorization checks in microservices.
• Mitigation Strategy: Implement centralized, fine-grained authorization (attribute-based access control), enforce authorization checks in every service, use policy-as-code (OPA), automated tests for access rules, regular access reviews and least privilege, audit logs for privilege changes.

High Risk Threats

THR-002 - Frontend Layer

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: DOM tampering or supply-chain compromise of frontend assets (CDN or third-party scripts altered) leading to client-side code injection that modifies content, steals tokens, or manipulates UI to perform unintended actions.
• Mitigation Strategy: Use Subresource Integrity (SRI), strict Content Security Policy (CSP), lock down CDN access and automated CI/CD signing of artifacts, audit third-party libraries, run supply-chain scanning, serve minimal third-party JS, monitor integrity violations via reporting.

THR-003 - Edge Layer (CDN & API Gateway)

• Category: Spoofing
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: API key or token theft via misconfigured edge auth or exposure in logs leading to attackers invoking backend APIs as legitimate services or users (e.g., stolen API Gateway key or insecure JWT handling at edge).
• Mitigation Strategy: Enforce short-lived tokens, mutual TLS for service-to-service, do not log secrets, restrict API keys by origin/whitelist, rotate keys, use edge-auth validation combined with backend verification, throttle and monitor edge requests.

THR-005 - Application Services (Post CRUD, Workflow Engine)

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: High | Impact: Medium
• Risk Level: High
• Description: Unauthorized modification or deletion of post content or metadata via insufficient input validation or insecure APIs (malicious client or internal abuse altering published content or scheduled times).
• Mitigation Strategy: Enforce strong server-side input validation and normalization, use optimistic concurrency/versioning for posts, validate user permissions for each operation, maintain immutable version history, implement soft delete with retention and recovery workflows.

THR-006 - Data Storage (Relational DB / Object Store)

• Category: Information Disclosure
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: Sensitive data exposure: PII, drafts, or agent-rule definitions leaked due to misconfigured backups, publicly accessible S3 buckets, or weak DB access controls.
• Mitigation Strategy: Encrypt sensitive data at rest using KMS-managed keys, enforce least privilege on storage buckets and DB accounts, block public ACLs on object store, audit backup access, use IAM policies and VPC endpoints, scan for exposed buckets, rotate keys and revoke unused credentials.

THR-007 - Frontend Layer / WebSockets

• Category: Information Disclosure
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: CSRF or token leakage in browser: JWTs or session cookies leaked via XSS, or over insecure origin, allowing attackers to hijack sessions and read content or perform actions.
• Mitigation Strategy: Store tokens in httpOnly, Secure cookies or use in-memory storage, implement anti-CSRF tokens for state-changing requests, protect against XSS (CSP, output encoding), use SameSite cookie attributes, enforce HTTPS-only.

THR-008 - Application Services (Prolog Agent Engine)

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: Attackers modify agent rules or execution context (malicious Prolog rules or malicious data fed to agents) to cause inappropriate publication, data exfiltration, or to bypass moderation logic.
• Mitigation Strategy: Only allow authorized users to modify agent rules, store rule changes in audited, versioned repositories, sandbox agent runtime, apply strict input validation for rules and agent inputs, use immutable logs for agent actions, require code review/approval for rule changes.

THR-009 - Application Services (Prolog Agent Engine)

• Category: Information Disclosure
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: Agent outputs or intermediate context contains sensitive PII or secrets which get published to channels (e.g., agent enriches content with PII from DB) accidentally exposing data across external channels.
• Mitigation Strategy: Data classification and taint-tracking for agent inputs/outputs, policy checks to block PII from being included in outbound content, enforce masking/redaction, require human review for posts flagged as containing sensitive data, log and alert policy violations.

THR-010 - External Integrations (Social APIs / Email)

• Category: Spoofing
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: Compromised external channel credentials (OAuth tokens) allow attackers to publish to social/email channels as the platform; stolen refresh tokens can be reused to extend access.
• Mitigation Strategy: Store channel credentials encrypted in Secrets Manager, use short-lived tokens where supported, implement token rotation, limit scopes required, maintain per-channel audit trail, implement out-of-band re-auth validation for high-impact actions, detect abnormal publishing patterns and revoke tokens on anomalies.

THR-012 - Data Storage (Audit Log / Append-only)

• Category: Repudiation
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: Attacker or rogue admin alters or deletes audit logs to hide malicious actions, undermining forensic investigation and non-repudiation guarantees.
• Mitigation Strategy: Use append-only, immutable storage for audit logs with cryptographic integrity (WORM or ledger), replicate logs to a separate immutable service or external SIEM, restrict access to logs, alert on log access patterns and integrity failures.

THR-013 - Frontend Layer / Application Services

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: High | Impact: Medium
• Risk Level: High
• Description: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS): malformed user content (posts, comments, attachments metadata) rendered without proper escaping leading to session theft, UI manipulation, or drive-by actions.
• Mitigation Strategy: Sanitize and encode all user-generated content on output, use context-aware encoding libraries, adopt a secure templating framework, enforce CSP, validate rich-text inputs and strip dangerous HTML/JS, sanitize attachment metadata.

THR-015 - Application Services / Message Queue Workers

• Category: Denial of Service
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: Queue flooding or worker exhaustion: attackers submit many heavy tasks (large file uploads, scheduled publish spam) overwhelming workers and delaying legitimate processing (notifications, publishing).
• Mitigation Strategy: Enforce rate-limiting and quotas per user/workspace, validate and limit payload size, use prioritized queues, autoscale workers with backpressure controls, implement circuit breakers and task timeouts.

THR-016 - Edge Layer / API Gateway

• Category: Denial of Service
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: Layer 7 DDoS targeting the API Gateway or WebSockets, causing service disruption for real-time collaboration and content publishing.
• Mitigation Strategy: Use CDN/WAF DDoS protections, traffic scrubbing, rate limiting, autoscaling with graceful degradation strategies (e.g., degrade real-time features, preserve core API), blackhole attack traffic and use geo/IP blocks selectively.

THR-017 - Data Storage (DB / Search / Analytics)

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: Injection attacks (SQL/NoSQL/Elasticsearch): unsanitized queries or dynamic search DSL allow attackers to run arbitrary queries, exfiltrate data, or corrupt indexes/search results.
• Mitigation Strategy: Use parameterized queries/ORMs, validate and sanitize search inputs, apply least privilege DB accounts, rate-limit heavy queries, restrict admin operations, enable query logging and anomaly detection for unusual queries.

THR-018 - Attachments / Object Store / File Scanning

• Category: Information Disclosure
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: Malicious or sensitive attachments stored with public ACLs or insufficient scanning leading to malware distribution or PII leakage from attachments.
• Mitigation Strategy: Scan file uploads with antivirus/ML scanning before storage, store attachments privately with signed URLs for retrieval, enforce content policy, restrict file types and size, use metadata tagging for sensitive files, enforce retention policies.

THR-021 - Application Services / Channel Connectors

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: Low | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: API abuse via publishing connectors: attackers craft malformed channel payloads to cause remote code execution on connector adapters or bypass formatting checks causing unintended content being posted.
• Mitigation Strategy: Validate and sanitize outbound payloads, run connectors in isolated containers with least privilege, maintain strict input schemas, fuzz test connectors, enforce timeouts and rate limits on connector operations.

THR-022 - Infrastructure & Security Services (KMS/Secrets Manager)

• Category: Spoofing
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: Compromised cloud credentials or IAM misconfiguration allow attackers to access KMS/Secrets Manager and decrypt secrets or impersonate services to exfiltrate secrets and rotate keys.
• Mitigation Strategy: Enforce least privilege IAM, use strong MFA and hardware-backed keys for admins, enable key access logs/alerts, rotate keys, use access boundary policies, isolate secrets access to ephemeral roles, enable TF plan reviews for infra changes.

THR-025 - External Integrations (Third-party services)

• Category: Denial of Service
• Likelihood: High | Impact: Medium
• Risk Level: High
• Description: Third-party rate limits or outages (social APIs, email providers, file scanning vendors) prevent publishing or scanning causing backlog, delayed publishing, or missed moderation.
• Mitigation Strategy: Design connectors with retries/backoff, implement graceful degradation (queue for later publish, mark pending), use multiple vendor fallbacks for critical services, monitor third-party SLA and alert on failures, surface degraded status to users.

THR-026 - Application Services / Workers

• Category: Elevation of Privilege
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: Worker or microservice compromise leads to lateral movement and elevated privileges if service-to-service auth is weak, enabling access to DB or Secrets Manager beyond intended scope.
• Mitigation Strategy: Use mutual TLS or service identity tokens for S2S auth, enforce least privilege service roles, apply network segmentation (VPC, subnets), employ runtime protection and EDR for hosts, conduct regular pentests and microsegmentation.

THR-027 - Data Storage (Analytics/Search)

• Category: Information Disclosure
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: Search or analytics cluster exposure (e.g., Elasticsearch) with default credentials or open network leads to mass data leakage of posts, drafts, PII, and agent logs.
• Mitigation Strategy: Require auth for analytics/search clusters, disable public access, use IP/VPC restrictions, enforce TLS and strong auth, monitor for snapshot exports, rotate credentials and snapshot encryption, regularly scan for exposed clusters.

THR-030 - Infrastructure & Security Services (Backups / DR)

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: Low | Impact: High
• Risk Level: High
• Description: Backup compromise or unauthorized restore (attacker deletes backups or restores malicious snapshots) causing data loss or reintroduction of compromised data into production.
• Mitigation Strategy: Encrypt backups, restrict backup/restore operations to privileged roles with MFA, maintain off-site immutable backups, test restore procedures, track backup integrity and access logs, use multi-party approval for restores.

Medium Risk Threats

THR-011 - External Integrations (Inbound Webhooks)

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: Medium
• Risk Level: Medium
• Description: Unverified inbound webhooks or callbacks manipulated by attackers to inject false delivery receipts, trigger workflows, or corrupt system state.
• Mitigation Strategy: Validate webhook signatures, restrict webhook endpoints to whitelisted IPs where possible, use mutual TLS for callbacks, implement idempotency checks and strict schema validation, rate-limit webhook handlers.

THR-014 - Frontend/API (CSRF)

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: Medium
• Risk Level: Medium
• Description: CSRF attacks cause authenticated users to perform actions (publish, delete, change settings) via forged requests if anti-CSRF protections are missing for state-changing endpoints.
• Mitigation Strategy: Implement anti-CSRF tokens for non-idempotent operations, enforce SameSite cookies and require origin/Referer header checks for critical endpoints, use double-submit cookie patterns for APIs when cookies are used.

THR-019 - Notifications (Email / In-app)

• Category: Information Disclosure
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: Medium
• Risk Level: Medium
• Description: Notification spoofing or information leakage via email digests or notifications where sensitive content is included in email/body, exposing data to third parties or attackers intercepting email.
• Mitigation Strategy: Minimize sensitive data in emails, use secure links with short-lived tokens to view content, sign emails (DKIM, SPF, DMARC), encrypt sensitive digests where appropriate, allow users to adjust notification sensitivity settings.

THR-020 - Reporting / Analytics

• Category: Information Disclosure
• Likelihood: Low | Impact: Medium
• Risk Level: Medium
• Description: Aggregated analytics or productivity metrics reveal user-sensitive behavior or PII if dashboards or exports lack proper access controls or are cached publicly.
• Mitigation Strategy: Enforce RBAC on dashboards and export features, anonymize PII in analytics, restrict direct access to analytics databases, cache sensitive reports in private storage, log exports and require approval for bulk exports.

THR-023 - Application Services / Workflow Engine

• Category: Repudiation
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: Medium
• Risk Level: Medium
• Description: Lack of reliable action attribution: actions by agents or users cannot be reliably linked to an identity (e.g., agent-run publish without clear audit), enabling denial of responsibility or tampering without traceability.
• Mitigation Strategy: Attach cryptographic signatures or provenance metadata to automated agent actions, maintain immutable audit trails with timestamps and actor context, separate human approvals in workflows, ensure audit logs are tamper-evident and accessible to SOC.

THR-024 - Frontend / API (Search, Mentions)

• Category: Information Disclosure
• Likelihood: High | Impact: Low
• Risk Level: Medium
• Description: Autocomplete/mentions enumeration: attackers enumerate user lists via search/mentions endpoint allowing reconnaissance of registered users, agents or workspace membership.
• Mitigation Strategy: Rate-limit search/mentions endpoints, require authentication and proper authorization to list users, return fuzzy results with partial info, add throttling and per-user caps, monitor for enumeration patterns.

THR-028 - Application Services (Scheduling & Multichannel Publication)

• Category: Tampering
• Likelihood: Low | Impact: Medium
• Risk Level: Medium
• Description: Scheduler manipulation: attackers change scheduled publish times or channel-specific formatting to cause undesired posts or duplicate publishing across channels, damaging reputation or causing misinformation spread.
• Mitigation Strategy: Validate scheduler requests, enforce authorization checks for schedule changes, keep immutable schedule events with audit trail and ability to rollback, provide confirmation/approval flows for high-impact scheduled posts, alert on mass schedule changes.

THR-029 - Frontend / Application (Real-time Collaboration)

• Category: Denial of Service
• Likelihood: Medium | Impact: Medium
• Risk Level: Medium
• Description: Real-time presence or collaboration feature abused to spam presence/state updates (websocket flood) consuming bandwidth and CPU, causing degraded UX and potential disconnection of legitimate users.
• Mitigation Strategy: Implement per-connection rate-limits, message size limits, authentication for socket connections, validate and drop malformed messages, use gateway-level protections and scale websockets via clustered solutions with backpressure.

Total Threats: 30

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Appendix D: Complete Requirements Traceability Matrix

This appendix provides complete end-to-end traceability from requirements through threats to controls and verification.

Full Traceability Table

Req ID	Requirement	Category	Sensitivity	Threat IDs	Security Controls	Priority	Verification	Status
REQ-001	User registration and login with role-based access…	Authentication & Identity Management	High	THR-001, THR-003, THR-004 +7	[OWASP] V2.1, [NIST] IA-2, [ISO27001] A.9.2.1 +1	Critical	Test session handling, token revocation, and behavior during role changes; review cookie flags and session expiration policies., Review documented procedures and audit trails, and verify de-registration cases are handled correctly in the system.	Pending
REQ-002	User profile management and role/agent assignment …	User Management	High	THR-001, THR-003, THR-004 +7	[OWASP] V2.1, [NIST] IA-2, [ISO27001] A.9.2.1 +1	Critical	Test session handling, token revocation, and behavior during role changes; review cookie flags and session expiration policies., Review documented procedures and audit trails, and verify de-registration cases are handled correctly in the system.	Pending
REQ-003	Channel workspace creation and multi-tenant worksp…	Tenancy & Workspace Management	High	THR-001, THR-004, THR-009 +4	[OWASP] V4.12, [NIST] SC-3, [NIST] AC-19 +1	Critical	Review network policies, architecture diagrams, and enforcement logs; perform architecture review for tenant protection., Review boundary enforcement configurations, perform network flow analysis and simulated attacks across tenant boundaries.	Pending
REQ-004	Create, edit, delete, and version blog posts with …	Content Management	Medium	THR-004, THR-013, THR-014 +2	[OWASP] V8.1, [NIST] SI-7, [ISO27001] A.12.4.1 +1	Critical	Review logs for content events and verify log integrity and retention policy adherence., Review versioning implementation, inspect audit trails for edits/deletes, and attempt unauthorized edit/delete in tests.	Pending
REQ-005	Assign posts to users or agents and maintain assig…	Workflow & Assignment	Medium	THR-001, THR-003, THR-004 +7	[OWASP] V4.3, [NIST] AC-5, [ISO27001] A.9.2.2	High	Audit assignment permissions and conduct access reviews correlating role changes with assignment capability changes., Test assignment endpoints for improper authorization by attempting role-switched operations and review server-side enforcement.	Pending
REQ-006	Schedule posts for multi-channel publication with …	Publishing & Scheduling	Medium	THR-004, THR-005, THR-008 +5	[OWASP] V10.3, [NIST] CM-6, [ISO27001] A.12.1.2	High	Attempt to tamper with scheduled jobs, review scheduler logs, and validate authorization checks on scheduling APIs., Review change request records, and inspect logs for schedule change events.	Pending
REQ-007	Tagging, categorization, and searchable metadata f…	Content Discovery	Low	THR-004, THR-005, THR-006 +5	[OWASP] V5.1, [NIST] SI-3, [ISO27001] A.8.3.3	Critical	Review asset handling policy and check that storage and metadata handling align with classified requirements., Review scanning integrations, test known-bad samples, and check quarantine and alerting behavior.	Pending
REQ-008	Attach files to posts with virus scanning and file…	File Management	High	THR-004, THR-013, THR-018 +3	[OWASP] V5.1, [NIST] SI-3, [ISO27001] A.8.3.3	Critical	Review asset handling policy and check that storage and metadata handling align with classified requirements., Review scanning integrations, test known-bad samples, and check quarantine and alerting behavior.	Pending
REQ-009	Threaded comments, @mentions, and permissioned com…	Collaboration	Medium	THR-008, THR-013, THR-025 +1	[OWASP] V5.4, [OWASP] V10.4, [NIST] AU-2 +1	Critical	Confirm scanning is scheduled, check detection logs, and validate remediation workflows exist., Perform automated and manual XSS testing on comment fields and mentions, and review sanitization libraries used.	Pending
REQ-010	Real-time collaborative editing and status updates…	Real-time Collaboration	Medium	THR-016, THR-029	[OWASP] V10.5, [NIST] SC-5, [OWASP] V2.2 +1	Critical	Review runbooks and procedure tests; ensure on-call teams can follow documented steps., Conduct load and DoS resilience testing, and review rate-limiting and queueing behaviors.	Pending
REQ-011	Activity feed and audit log of system actions (cre…	Logging & Auditing	High	THR-001, THR-002, THR-004 +7	[OWASP] V8.3, [ISO27001] A.12.4.1, [NIST] AU-6	High	Review event capture design, validate feed access controls, and check logs for completeness and integrity., Inspect logs and feed correlation to ensure expected events are present and protected.	Pending
REQ-012	Prolog-driven agent integration for continuous pub…	Agent Integration & Automation	High	THR-001, THR-005, THR-006 +7	[OWASP] V10.1, [NIST] SI-4, [ISO27001] A.6.1.2	Critical	Review agent behavior rules, simulate agent actions, and verify audit logging and human override capabilities., Review account entitlements for agent processes and verify separation in configuration and logs.	Pending
REQ-013	Automated topic suggestion and content enrichment …	AI/ML Governance	High	THR-001, THR-002, THR-005 +7	[OWASP] V10.2, [NIST] PL-2, [ISO27001] A.18.1.4	High	Check data flows for PII into suggestion pipelines and review privacy impact assessments., Review policies and audit that procedures are followed for machine-assisted content generation.	Pending
REQ-014	Rule-based workflow coordination with approval gat…	Workflow Orchestration	High	THR-005, THR-006, THR-011 +2	[OWASP] V10.6, [NIST] CM-8, [ISO27001] A.12.1.3	Critical	Review capacity plans and monitoring metrics under typical and peak loads., Conduct threat modeling on workflow rules, review rule change logs, and attempt logic bypass scenarios in tests.	Pending
REQ-015	Agent sandboxing, resource limits, rate-limits, an…	Runtime Security	High	THR-001, THR-006, THR-008 +5	None	Medium	Manual Review	Pending
REQ-016	Connectors for managing multiple publishing channe…	Integrations	High	THR-004, THR-005, THR-008 +7	[OWASP] V14.1, [NIST] SC-12, [ISO27001] A.13.2.1	Critical	Inspect connector auth flows, examine transport security, and attempt to intercept/manipulate connector traffic in tests., Review policies and connector configurations to ensure compliance with transfer procedures.	Pending
REQ-017	Unified channel performance dashboard and analytic…	Analytics & Reporting	Medium	THR-004, THR-009, THR-010 +5	[OWASP] V8.2, [NIST] PL-2, [ISO27001] A.18.1.4	High	Inspect data flows into analytics, verify anonymization, and review role-based access to dashboards., Check DPIA records and compliance artifacts for analytics processing.	Pending
REQ-018	Email and in-app notifications (mentions, assignme…	Notifications	Medium	THR-010, THR-015, THR-016 +4	[OWASP] V14.3, [NIST] SC-13, [ISO27001] A.7.2.2	High	Review training records and incident handling exercises related to messaging., Review key storage and rotation policies and test key access controls.	Pending
REQ-019	Export capabilities for blog lists, agent actions,…	Data Export & DLP	High	THR-001, THR-005, THR-006 +7	[OWASP] V8.4, [NIST] AC-4, [ISO27001] A.8.2.3	High	Review export procedures and test encryption and approvals for export to removable media., Test export endpoints for unauthorized access and inspect exported files for PII leakage.	Pending
REQ-020	Comprehensive logging, monitoring, and alerting (S…	Monitoring & Incident Response	High	THR-001, THR-006, THR-008 +4	None	Medium	Manual Review	Pending
REQ-021	Data subject request (DSR) APIs and data lifecycle…	Privacy & Data Protection	High	THR-001, THR-003, THR-005 +7	[OWASP] V8.6, [NIST] MP-6, [ISO27001] A.12.3.1 +1	Critical	Audit encryption deployment and key management processes, and verify keys are rotated and access is restricted., Review sanitization process records and test decommissioning procedures.	Pending
REQ-022	Supply-chain and CI/CD controls for dependencies, …	Supply Chain & Development Security	High	THR-002, THR-006, THR-018 +2	None	Medium	Manual Review	Pending
REQ-023	Tenant isolation architecture, authorization enfor…	Architecture & Multi-Tenancy	High	THR-001, THR-002, THR-003 +7	None	Medium	Manual Review	Pending

Total Requirements Tracked: 23

Detailed Requirement Mappings

The following section provides detailed traceability for each requirement:

REQ-001: User registration and login with role-based access control and multi-factor authentication

Related Threats:

• THR-001: Credential theft or reuse: attackers obtain user credentials (phished, leaked, o…
• THR-003: API key or token theft via misconfigured edge auth or exposure in logs leading t…
• THR-004: Broken RBAC/ACLs allow a low-privileged user (Contributor) to perform admin/edit…
• THR-006: Sensitive data exposure: PII, drafts, or agent-rule definitions leaked due to mi…
• THR-010: Compromised external channel credentials (OAuth tokens) allow attackers to publi…
• …and 5 more threats

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V2.1: [OWASP] Verify that the application implements secure credential management for user reg…
• [NIST] IA-2: [NIST] Identify and authenticate users and devices before allowing access to organizati…
• [ISO27001] A.9.2.1: [ISO27001] A formal user registration and de-registration process should be implemented to …
• [OWASP] V2.2: [OWASP] Verify that the application securely manages sessions and session tokens (creati…

Verification: Test session handling, token revocation, and behavior during role changes; review cookie flags and session expiration policies., Review documented procedures and audit trails, and verify de-registration cases are handled correctly in the system., Inspect account management procedures, test account creation/modification/deactivation flows, and review logs for corresponding events., Review implementation of password hashing, inspect registration and recovery flows, and perform code review and pentest to verify no plaintext storage or insecure recovery.

Priority: Critical | Status: Pending

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REQ-002: User profile management and role/agent assignment (Admin, Editor, Contributor, Agent)

Related Threats:

• THR-001: Credential theft or reuse: attackers obtain user credentials (phished, leaked, o…
• THR-003: API key or token theft via misconfigured edge auth or exposure in logs leading t…
• THR-004: Broken RBAC/ACLs allow a low-privileged user (Contributor) to perform admin/edit…
• THR-008: Attackers modify agent rules or execution context (malicious Prolog rules or mal…
• THR-009: Agent outputs or intermediate context contains sensitive PII or secrets which ge…
• …and 5 more threats

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V2.1: [OWASP] Verify that the application implements secure credential management for user reg…
• [NIST] IA-2: [NIST] Identify and authenticate users and devices before allowing access to organizati…
• [ISO27001] A.9.2.1: [ISO27001] A formal user registration and de-registration process should be implemented to …
• [OWASP] V2.2: [OWASP] Verify that the application securely manages sessions and session tokens (creati…

Verification: Test session handling, token revocation, and behavior during role changes; review cookie flags and session expiration policies., Review documented procedures and audit trails, and verify de-registration cases are handled correctly in the system., Inspect account management procedures, test account creation/modification/deactivation flows, and review logs for corresponding events., Review implementation of password hashing, inspect registration and recovery flows, and perform code review and pentest to verify no plaintext storage or insecure recovery.

Priority: Critical | Status: Pending

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REQ-003: Channel workspace creation and multi-tenant workspace management

Related Threats:

• THR-001: Credential theft or reuse: attackers obtain user credentials (phished, leaked, o…
• THR-004: Broken RBAC/ACLs allow a low-privileged user (Contributor) to perform admin/edit…
• THR-009: Agent outputs or intermediate context contains sensitive PII or secrets which ge…
• THR-010: Compromised external channel credentials (OAuth tokens) allow attackers to publi…
• THR-021: API abuse via publishing connectors: attackers craft malformed channel payloads …
• …and 2 more threats

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V4.12: [OWASP] Verify tenant isolation to prevent data leakage across tenants in multi-tenant a…
• [NIST] SC-3: [NIST] Monitor and control communications at the external boundary and at key internal …
• [NIST] AC-19: [NIST] Access controls must account for cloud and multi-tenant deployments and ensure t…
• [ISO27001] A.13.1.1: [ISO27001] Networks should be managed and controlled to protect information in systems and …

Verification: Review network policies, architecture diagrams, and enforcement logs; perform architecture review for tenant protection., Review boundary enforcement configurations, perform network flow analysis and simulated attacks across tenant boundaries., Penetration testing for cross-tenant access, code review for tenant filters, and runtime checks for tenant ID propagation in all data paths., Validate access control enforcement across cloud services and verify tenant-specific policies through configuration review and testing.

Priority: Critical | Status: Pending

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REQ-004: Create, edit, delete, and version blog posts with status lifecycle (Draft, In Review, Published)

Related Threats:

• THR-004: Broken RBAC/ACLs allow a low-privileged user (Contributor) to perform admin/edit…
• THR-013: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS): malformed user content (posts, comments, attachments…
• THR-014: CSRF attacks cause authenticated users to perform actions (publish, delete, chan…
• THR-027: Search or analytics cluster exposure (e.g., Elasticsearch) with default credenti…
• THR-028: Scheduler manipulation: attackers change scheduled publish times or channel-spec…

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V8.1: [OWASP] Verify that the application enforces integrity controls for data modification, i…
• [NIST] SI-7: [NIST] The organization protects the integrity of information and software by implement…
• [ISO27001] A.12.4.1: [ISO27001] Events and user activities should be logged to provide audit trails for changes …
• [NIST] AU-2: [NIST] Determine and capture auditable events and user actions affecting system integri…

Verification: Review logs for content events and verify log integrity and retention policy adherence., Review versioning implementation, inspect audit trails for edits/deletes, and attempt unauthorized edit/delete in tests., Inspect integrity mechanisms, run tamper tests, and review alerts/logs for detected integrity violations., Verify event configuration, test event generation for content operations, and confirm their presence in audit stores.

Priority: Critical | Status: Pending

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REQ-005: Assign posts to users or agents and maintain assignment history/ownership

Related Threats:

• THR-001: Credential theft or reuse: attackers obtain user credentials (phished, leaked, o…
• THR-003: API key or token theft via misconfigured edge auth or exposure in logs leading t…
• THR-004: Broken RBAC/ACLs allow a low-privileged user (Contributor) to perform admin/edit…
• THR-008: Attackers modify agent rules or execution context (malicious Prolog rules or mal…
• THR-009: Agent outputs or intermediate context contains sensitive PII or secrets which ge…
• …and 5 more threats

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V4.3: [OWASP] Verify that authorization checks are enforced server-side for access to resource…
• [NIST] AC-5: [NIST] The organization separates duties to reduce the risk of malevolent activity with…
• [ISO27001] A.9.2.2: [ISO27001] Implement procedures for granting and revoking access rights based on job roles …

Verification: Audit assignment permissions and conduct access reviews correlating role changes with assignment capability changes., Test assignment endpoints for improper authorization by attempting role-switched operations and review server-side enforcement., Review role responsibilities and simulate assignment workflows to ensure separation of duties is respected.

Priority: High | Status: Pending

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REQ-006: Schedule posts for multi-channel publication with per-channel scheduling and formatting rules

Related Threats:

• THR-004: Broken RBAC/ACLs allow a low-privileged user (Contributor) to perform admin/edit…
• THR-005: Unauthorized modification or deletion of post content or metadata via insufficie…
• THR-008: Attackers modify agent rules or execution context (malicious Prolog rules or mal…
• THR-013: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS): malformed user content (posts, comments, attachments…
• THR-015: Queue flooding or worker exhaustion: attackers submit many heavy tasks (large fi…
• …and 3 more threats

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V10.3: [OWASP] Verify that time-based actions such as scheduled posts are authorized, validated…
• [NIST] CM-6: [NIST] Establish and enforce configuration settings for applications, including schedul…
• [ISO27001] A.12.1.2: [ISO27001] Changes to systems and scheduled operations should be controlled and logged.

Verification: Attempt to tamper with scheduled jobs, review scheduler logs, and validate authorization checks on scheduling APIs., Review change request records, and inspect logs for schedule change events., Review configuration management records for scheduler settings and test that unauthorized config changes are blocked.

Priority: High | Status: Pending

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REQ-007: Tagging, categorization, and searchable metadata for posts

Related Threats:

• THR-004: Broken RBAC/ACLs allow a low-privileged user (Contributor) to perform admin/edit…
• THR-005: Unauthorized modification or deletion of post content or metadata via insufficie…
• THR-006: Sensitive data exposure: PII, drafts, or agent-rule definitions leaked due to mi…
• THR-012: Attacker or rogue admin alters or deletes audit logs to hide malicious actions, …
• THR-013: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS): malformed user content (posts, comments, attachments…
• …and 3 more threats

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V5.1: [OWASP] Verify that file uploads are restricted, validated, scanned for malware, and sto…
• [NIST] SI-3: [NIST] Implement protections to detect and respond to malicious code, including scannin…
• [ISO27001] A.8.3.3: [ISO27001] Handling and protection of assets (including files) should be defined to maintai…

Verification: Review asset handling policy and check that storage and metadata handling align with classified requirements., Review scanning integrations, test known-bad samples, and check quarantine and alerting behavior., Attempt malicious uploads in testing, inspect storage permissions, and verify malware scanning is in place and effective.

Priority: Critical | Status: Pending

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REQ-008: Attach files to posts with virus scanning and file-type policies

Related Threats:

• THR-004: Broken RBAC/ACLs allow a low-privileged user (Contributor) to perform admin/edit…
• THR-013: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS): malformed user content (posts, comments, attachments…
• THR-018: Malicious or sensitive attachments stored with public ACLs or insufficient scann…
• THR-025: Third-party rate limits or outages (social APIs, email providers, file scanning …
• THR-027: Search or analytics cluster exposure (e.g., Elasticsearch) with default credenti…
• …and 1 more threats

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V5.1: [OWASP] Verify that file uploads are restricted, validated, scanned for malware, and sto…
• [NIST] SI-3: [NIST] Implement protections to detect and respond to malicious code, including scannin…
• [ISO27001] A.8.3.3: [ISO27001] Handling and protection of assets (including files) should be defined to maintai…

Verification: Review asset handling policy and check that storage and metadata handling align with classified requirements., Review scanning integrations, test known-bad samples, and check quarantine and alerting behavior., Attempt malicious uploads in testing, inspect storage permissions, and verify malware scanning is in place and effective.

Priority: Critical | Status: Pending

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REQ-009: Threaded comments, @mentions, and permissioned comment moderation

Related Threats:

• THR-008: Attackers modify agent rules or execution context (malicious Prolog rules or mal…
• THR-013: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS): malformed user content (posts, comments, attachments…
• THR-025: Third-party rate limits or outages (social APIs, email providers, file scanning …
• THR-029: Real-time presence or collaboration feature abused to spam presence/state update…

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V5.4: [OWASP] Verify that user supplied content is properly validated and output encoded to pr…
• [OWASP] V10.4: [OWASP] Verify protections against abusive functionality, including rate limits and mode…
• [NIST] AU-2: [NIST] Determine and capture auditable events such as comment moderation actions and us…
• [ISO27001] A.12.6.1: [ISO27001] Implement controls to detect and prevent malicious content and code within user …

Verification: Confirm scanning is scheduled, check detection logs, and validate remediation workflows exist., Perform automated and manual XSS testing on comment fields and mentions, and review sanitization libraries used., Review moderation logs and audit trails for completeness and tamper resistance., Test rate limiting and moderation workflows; simulate abusive behaviors to confirm detection and throttling.

Priority: Critical | Status: Pending

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REQ-010: Real-time collaborative editing and status updates (presence, optimistic locking or OT/CRDT)

Related Threats:

• THR-016: Layer 7 DDoS targeting the API Gateway or WebSockets, causing service disruption…
• THR-029: Real-time presence or collaboration feature abused to spam presence/state update…

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V10.5: [OWASP] Verify that concurrent operations (such as collaborative edits) are protected ag…
• [NIST] SC-5: [NIST] Protect communications and real-time services from denial-of-service and ensure …
• [OWASP] V2.2: [OWASP] Verify that the application securely manages sessions and session tokens (creati…
• [ISO27001] A.12.1.1: [ISO27001] Operating procedures should be documented and maintained to support secure opera…

Verification: Review runbooks and procedure tests; ensure on-call teams can follow documented steps., Conduct load and DoS resilience testing, and review rate-limiting and queueing behaviors., Assess session token usage over real-time channels, and test re-auth/reauthorization on critical operations., Stress and concurrency testing with simulated multi-user edits and review merge/conflict resolution code.

Priority: Critical | Status: Pending

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REQ-011: Activity feed and audit log of system actions (create, edit, assign, publish, agent actions)

Related Threats:

• THR-001: Credential theft or reuse: attackers obtain user credentials (phished, leaked, o…
• THR-002: DOM tampering or supply-chain compromise of frontend assets (CDN or third-party …
• THR-004: Broken RBAC/ACLs allow a low-privileged user (Contributor) to perform admin/edit…
• THR-006: Sensitive data exposure: PII, drafts, or agent-rule definitions leaked due to mi…
• THR-007: CSRF or token leakage in browser: JWTs or session cookies leaked via XSS, or ove…
• …and 5 more threats

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V8.3: [OWASP] Verify that the application logs security-relevant events and provides monitorin…
• [ISO27001] A.12.4.1: [ISO27001] Events and user activities should be logged to provide audit trails for changes …
• [NIST] AU-6: [NIST] Audit records must be reviewed and analyzed for indications of inappropriate act…

Verification: Review event capture design, validate feed access controls, and check logs for completeness and integrity., Inspect logs and feed correlation to ensure expected events are present and protected., Check monitoring alerts derived from feed events and review periodic audit analyses.

Priority: High | Status: Pending

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REQ-012: Prolog-driven agent integration for continuous publishing, moderation, and workflow automation

Related Threats:

• THR-001: Credential theft or reuse: attackers obtain user credentials (phished, leaked, o…
• THR-005: Unauthorized modification or deletion of post content or metadata via insufficie…
• THR-006: Sensitive data exposure: PII, drafts, or agent-rule definitions leaked due to mi…
• THR-008: Attackers modify agent rules or execution context (malicious Prolog rules or mal…
• THR-009: Agent outputs or intermediate context contains sensitive PII or secrets which ge…
• …and 5 more threats

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V10.1: [OWASP] Verify that automated agent behaviors are authorized, constrained, and auditable…
• [NIST] SI-4: [NIST] Monitor information systems to detect attacks and verify expected operation of a…
• [ISO27001] A.6.1.2: [ISO27001] Segregation of duties should be implemented to reduce the risk of negligent or d…

Verification: Review agent behavior rules, simulate agent actions, and verify audit logging and human override capabilities., Review account entitlements for agent processes and verify separation in configuration and logs., Inspect monitoring dashboards, test anomaly detection for agent behavior, and ensure alerts trigger investigations.

Priority: Critical | Status: Pending

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REQ-013: Automated topic suggestion and content enrichment with provenance, confidence, and model-version met…

Related Threats:

• THR-001: Credential theft or reuse: attackers obtain user credentials (phished, leaked, o…
• THR-002: DOM tampering or supply-chain compromise of frontend assets (CDN or third-party …
• THR-005: Unauthorized modification or deletion of post content or metadata via insufficie…
• THR-006: Sensitive data exposure: PII, drafts, or agent-rule definitions leaked due to mi…
• THR-007: CSRF or token leakage in browser: JWTs or session cookies leaked via XSS, or ove…
• …and 5 more threats

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V10.2: [OWASP] Verify that machine-assisted features (suggestions, enrichment) have appropriate…
• [NIST] PL-2: [NIST] Develop policies and procedures for system functionality including automated fea…
• [ISO27001] A.18.1.4: [ISO27001] Ensure personal data used in processing (including automated processing) is hand…

Verification: Check data flows for PII into suggestion pipelines and review privacy impact assessments., Review policies and audit that procedures are followed for machine-assisted content generation., Review ML/agent output labeling, inspect consent logs, and test override and provenance tracing features.

Priority: High | Status: Pending

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REQ-014: Rule-based workflow coordination with approval gates and human-in-the-loop controls

Related Threats:

• THR-005: Unauthorized modification or deletion of post content or metadata via insufficie…
• THR-006: Sensitive data exposure: PII, drafts, or agent-rule definitions leaked due to mi…
• THR-011: Unverified inbound webhooks or callbacks manipulated by attackers to inject fals…
• THR-020: Aggregated analytics or productivity metrics reveal user-sensitive behavior or P…
• THR-023: Lack of reliable action attribution: actions by agents or users cannot be reliab…

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V10.6: [OWASP] Verify that workflow engines enforce authorization, data validation, and secure …
• [NIST] CM-8: [NIST] Maintain inventories of components (including workflow engines) and manage their…
• [ISO27001] A.12.1.3: [ISO27001] Ensure systems (including orchestration engines) are managed for capacity and av…

Verification: Review capacity plans and monitoring metrics under typical and peak loads., Conduct threat modeling on workflow rules, review rule change logs, and attempt logic bypass scenarios in tests., Review CMDB entries and patch records for the workflow engine and check vulnerability management tickets.

Priority: Critical | Status: Pending

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REQ-015: Agent sandboxing, resource limits, rate-limits, and governance controls (quotas, circuit breakers)

Related Threats:

• THR-001: Credential theft or reuse: attackers obtain user credentials (phished, leaked, o…
• THR-006: Sensitive data exposure: PII, drafts, or agent-rule definitions leaked due to mi…
• THR-008: Attackers modify agent rules or execution context (malicious Prolog rules or mal…
• THR-009: Agent outputs or intermediate context contains sensitive PII or secrets which ge…
• THR-020: Aggregated analytics or productivity metrics reveal user-sensitive behavior or P…
• …and 3 more threats

Verification: Manual Review

Priority: Medium | Status: Pending

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REQ-016: Connectors for managing multiple publishing channels (Web, Email, Social platforms, 3rd-party servic…

Related Threats:

• THR-004: Broken RBAC/ACLs allow a low-privileged user (Contributor) to perform admin/edit…
• THR-005: Unauthorized modification or deletion of post content or metadata via insufficie…
• THR-008: Attackers modify agent rules or execution context (malicious Prolog rules or mal…
• THR-009: Agent outputs or intermediate context contains sensitive PII or secrets which ge…
• THR-010: Compromised external channel credentials (OAuth tokens) allow attackers to publi…
• …and 5 more threats

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V14.1: [OWASP] Verify that connectors and integrations (APIs, webhooks) use secure authenticati…
• [NIST] SC-12: [NIST] Protect the confidentiality and integrity of information at rest and in transit …
• [ISO27001] A.13.2.1: [ISO27001] Formal transfer policies and procedures should be established to protect transfe…

Verification: Inspect connector auth flows, examine transport security, and attempt to intercept/manipulate connector traffic in tests., Review policies and connector configurations to ensure compliance with transfer procedures., Review TLS configs, validate certificate chains, and inspect key management processes.

Priority: Critical | Status: Pending

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REQ-017: Unified channel performance dashboard and analytics with role-based visibility

Related Threats:

• THR-004: Broken RBAC/ACLs allow a low-privileged user (Contributor) to perform admin/edit…
• THR-009: Agent outputs or intermediate context contains sensitive PII or secrets which ge…
• THR-010: Compromised external channel credentials (OAuth tokens) allow attackers to publi…
• THR-017: Injection attacks (SQL/NoSQL/Elasticsearch): unsanitized queries or dynamic sear…
• THR-020: Aggregated analytics or productivity metrics reveal user-sensitive behavior or P…
• …and 3 more threats

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V8.2: [OWASP] Verify that the application minimises stored personal data and implements privac…
• [NIST] PL-2: [NIST] Develop policies and procedures for system functionality including protection of…
• [ISO27001] A.18.1.4: [ISO27001] Ensure personal data is handled in accordance with legal, regulatory and contrac…

Verification: Inspect data flows into analytics, verify anonymization, and review role-based access to dashboards., Check DPIA records and compliance artifacts for analytics processing., Review policies and audit access to analytics dashboards.

Priority: High | Status: Pending

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REQ-018: Email and in-app notifications (mentions, assignments, publishing events) and configurable digests

Related Threats:

• THR-010: Compromised external channel credentials (OAuth tokens) allow attackers to publi…
• THR-015: Queue flooding or worker exhaustion: attackers submit many heavy tasks (large fi…
• THR-016: Layer 7 DDoS targeting the API Gateway or WebSockets, causing service disruption…
• THR-019: Notification spoofing or information leakage via email digests or notifications …
• THR-021: API abuse via publishing connectors: attackers craft malformed channel payloads …
• …and 2 more threats

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V14.3: [OWASP] Verify that notification channels are authenticated and protected, with user pre…
• [NIST] SC-13: [NIST] Protect keys and sensitive information used by messaging systems.
• [ISO27001] A.7.2.2: [ISO27001] Users should be made aware of security procedures related to notifications and m…

Verification: Review training records and incident handling exercises related to messaging., Review key storage and rotation policies and test key access controls., Test notification flows for spoofing, verify preference enforcement, and review email signing configurations.

Priority: High | Status: Pending

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REQ-019: Export capabilities for blog lists, agent actions, and analytics with DLP and approval workflows

Related Threats:

• THR-001: Credential theft or reuse: attackers obtain user credentials (phished, leaked, o…
• THR-005: Unauthorized modification or deletion of post content or metadata via insufficie…
• THR-006: Sensitive data exposure: PII, drafts, or agent-rule definitions leaked due to mi…
• THR-008: Attackers modify agent rules or execution context (malicious Prolog rules or mal…
• THR-009: Agent outputs or intermediate context contains sensitive PII or secrets which ge…
• …and 5 more threats

Security Controls:

• [OWASP] V8.4: [OWASP] Verify that data export functions enforce authorization, data minimization, and …
• [NIST] AC-4: [NIST] Enforce policies on information flow to prevent unauthorized exfiltration.
• [ISO27001] A.8.2.3: [ISO27001] Controls for handling and transferring data to external media should be defined.

Verification: Review export procedures and test encryption and approvals for export to removable media., Test export endpoints for unauthorized access and inspect exported files for PII leakage., Validate DLP rules, and attempt exports under different roles to confirm enforcement.

Priority: High | Status: Pending

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REQ-020: Comprehensive logging, monitoring, and alerting (SIEM integration, runbooks for agent incidents)

Related Threats:

• THR-001: Credential theft or reuse: attackers obtain user credentials (phished, leaked, o…
• THR-006: Sensitive data exposure: PII, drafts, or agent-rule definitions leaked due to mi…
• THR-008: Attackers modify agent rules or execution context (malicious Prolog rules or mal…
• THR-009: Agent outputs or intermediate context contains sensitive PII or secrets which ge…
• THR-023: Lack of reliable action attribution: actions by agents or users cannot be reliab…
• …and 2 more threats

Verification: Manual Review

Priority: Medium | Status: Pending

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Appendix E: References

• OWASP ASVS 5.0
• NIST Cybersecurity Framework
• ISO/IEC 27001:2022
• OWASP Top 10
• MITRE ATT&CK Framework

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End of Report - Generated by Security Requirements Analysis System v2.0 Generated: 2025-11-19 12:48:51